E END OF THE AGE 



AN INTERPRETATION OF ANCIENT 
AND MODERN PROPHECY 

BY 
REV/G. A KRATZER 




A Study of Present World Conditions and 
a Revelation of Mysteries 




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REV. GLENN ANDREWS KRATZER, B.A., C.S. 



THE END OF THE AGE 

A Study of Present World Conditions 

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A Revelation of Mysteries 

BY 

REV. GLENN A: KRATZER 

Lecturer, Teacher and Practitioner of Christian Science 



Author of 

"Revelation Interpreted," "The Cause and Cure of War," 

"Dominion Within," "The Universal Gospel," 

"Spiritual Man," "What is Truth," 

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An Address Delivered at Oregon, Illinois 
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An Address Delivered 

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June 3, 1917, 

Taken in Shorthand, 

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THE END OF THE AGE 



Introductory Remarks 

In the Scriptures it is declared that "God is 
light and in him is no darkness at all." The 
Buddhists have a term, "amitabha," meaning 
the boundless light. This is the "light that 
lighteth every man that cometh into the world;" 
and if I were to classify myself, I would say that 
I am a follower of that Light. 

Human Mentality Imprisoned 

Now, then, matter, which is opposite to Spirit 
or God; the flesh, which "lusteth against the 
Spirit and the Spirit against the flesh," so that 
"these two are contrary, one to the other"; the 
carnal mind, which is enmity against God; these 
three, — matter, flesh and the carnal mind — consti- 
tute, as it were, the walls of the great prison in 
which human mentalities are more or less con- 
fined, and which, more or less, shut human mental- 
ities out from the clear vision and reception of 
the boundless light. 



The Windows of the Prison 

But there are windows in the walls of this pris- 
on; some of them large; some of them with win- 
dow-panes very clear, very translucent, some of 
them smaller, some with the window-panes more 
or less dirty, some very, very dirty. 

One of the largest windows in this human pris- 
on-house, constituted by the carnal mind and the 
belief in matter, was Jesus of Nazareth; another 
was Gautama Buddha; another was Zoroaster; 
another was Lao Tse; another was BahaVllah, 
the great seer of modern Persia; another was 
Plato; another was Swedenborg; another, Mar- 
tin Luther; another, Wesley; another, Calvin; 
another was John Murray; another was named 
Mary Baker Eddy; and other windows in the 
walls of this prison house are named Smith and 
Jones and Eobinson and McCarthy, and so on 
ad infinitum. 

Judging Your Fellow Men 

Some windows in a house such as you live in 
may be large and clear; some may be smaller; 
some may be dirty ; but even a dirty window will 
let in much light, will let in enough to work or 
read by, and so may serve you very well, if you 
are in need of light and are not concerned so 
much about the dirt on the window pane. So, it 

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is a question, in observing your human fellow- 
beings, what you are looking for. If looking for 
mental dirt, you will find it, and if looking for 
spiritual light, you will see that; but the only 
spiritual light there is, is God manifested, — mani- 
fested more or less through every human men- 
tality. "There is none good save one; that is 
God." There is one light, one God, and wher- 
ever you see spiritual light manifested, it comes 
from one Source of infinite good, who is God. 

The following paragraph, on page 295 of ' ' Sci- 
ence and Health, with Key to the Scriptures," by 
Mary Baker Eddy, is interesting in this connec- 
tion: 

"The manifestation of God through mortals is as 
light passing through the window-pane. The light and 
the glass never mingle, but as matter, the glass is less 
opaque than the walls. The mortal mind through which 
Truth appears most vividly is that one which has lost 
much materiality — much error — in order to become a 
better transparency for Truth. Then, like a cloud melting 
into thin vapor, it no longer hides the sun." 

What to Follow 

Now, I am not a follower of Mary Baker Eddy, 
but I am a follower of the Light which shone 
through the mentality of Mary Baker Eddy; I 
am not a follower of Jesus of Nazareth, but I am 
a follower of the Light which was manifest in his 
words and deeds ; I am not a follower of Gautama 
Buddha, but I am a follower of the Light which 



came through that wide and open channel; I am 
not a follower of Martin Luther, but of the Light 
which shone through his consecrated life upon the 
world. I am not a follower of Smith or Jones or 
Brown or McCarthy, but I am a follower of the 
Light of good which bursts through every such 
mentality. I am not a follower of G. A. Kratzer, 
but I am a follower of the Light from God which 
comes, in a measure, through that mentality which 
is known on earth among men as G. A. Kratzer. 

"Jesus took a child and set him in the midst and 
said, Of such is the kingdom of God." Now, I 
am not a follower of any child, but I am a fol- 
lower of the boundless Light that shines through 
the smallest child that is in this audience, this 
morning. I am not a follower of the flowers and 
fishes and birds, but of the one Light and one 
Life that is manifested through them all, despite 
the tendency of matter and flesh to hinder in some 
measure the full expression of that Light. 

When I shall have attained that Light, when I 
shall have "put on Christ", then I shall be a fol- 
lower no longer, but then, and not before, I shall 
be that Light, as you will all be when you have 
made the same attainment. 

BahaVllah, the great modern Persian seer, 
founder of the world-wide Bahai movement for 
the unification of mankind religiously, writes on 

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the second page of the "Book of Ighan" the fol- 
lowing important statement : 

"Should a servant desire to make the words, deeds 
and actions of other servants, learned or ignorant, the 
standard for knowing God and His Chosen Ones, he shall 
never enter the Rizwan of the Knowledge of the Lord 
of Might nor attain to the Fountain of the Knowledge 
and Wisdom of the King of Oneness ; neither shall he 
reach the bourne of immortality nor partake of the Cup 
of Nearness and Good Pleasure." 

The Universal Gospel 

Such following and transmitting of the bound- 
less Light which ' ' lighteth every man that cometh 
into the world" is a promulgation of that univer- 
sal gospel which Jesus said ' ' shall be preached in 
all the world for a witness unto all nations; and 
then shall the end come." 

Main Subject for Consideration 

I am here this morning to deliver unto you a 
message from the universal Mind that is adapted 
to the needs and circumstances of this crisis in 
the world's history and development, and I invite 
your consideration of a couple of short passages 
from the Bible by way of texts. 

"And ye shall hear of wars and rumors of wars ; see 
that ye be not troubled; for all these things must come 
to pass, but the end is not yet. For nation shall rise against 
nation, and kingdom against kingdom; and there shall be 
famines, and pestilences and earthquakes in divers places. 
All these are the beginning of sorrows. Then shall they 
deliver you up to be afflicted, and shall kill you; and ye 
shall be hated of all nations for my name's sake. And 

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then shall many be offended, and shall betray one another, 
and shall hate one another. And many false prophets 
shall rise, and shall deceive many. And because iniquity 
shall abound, the love of many shall wax cold. But he 
that shall endure unto the end, the same shall be saved." 

And then, over in the second chapter of Acts: 

"And on my servants and on my handmaidens I will 
pour out in those days of my Spirit; and they shall 
prophesy ; and I will show wonders in heaven above, and 
signs in the earth beneath; blood, and fire, and vapor of 
smoke. The sun shall be turned into darkness, and the 
moon into blood, before that great and notable day of 
the Lord come; and it shall come to pass, that whoso- 
ever shall call on the name of the Lord shall be saved." 

"The Time of the End" 

I believe I have been announced to speak on a 
subject indicated by the phrase, "The Time of 
the End." This phrase was used by the prophet 
Daniel, and, without doubt, has reference to the 
same time or set of circumstances that was 
referred to in our Scripture Lesson by the phrase, 
"the end of the world," and concerning which we 
are told that, ' ' He that shall endure unto the end, 
the same shall be saved." 

An Instance of Poor Translation 

Now, friends, "the end of the world," is not a 
good translation of the original Greek in this con- 
nection. The word translated "world" is, in the 
Greek, axon, which transliterated into English — 
that is, transferred letter by letter, — gives our 
English word "aeon." It has a parallel in the 

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Latin language, which is a cousin to the Greek, 
in the word aevum, which means ' ' age, " " period ' ' 
or "cycle." So, when we have a correct under- 
standing of the question which the disciples of 
Jesus raised on that occasion, as recorded in Mat- 
thew 24:3, it was, What shall be the sign of thy 
coming, and of the end of the age or cycle? Now, 
that it was concerning which the prophets were 
speaking, toward which they were continually 
looking, concerning which the Old Testament 
prophets and the prophecies of the New Testa- 
ment have many things to say — the end of the 
cycle or the end of the age, and that which is to 
succeed the end. 

The Present and the Coming Cycle Contrasted 

Friends, mankind has been living, since the time 
of Jesus, and very long before that, in an age or 
cycle of selfishness, of materialism, of lust, of 
carnality, of human domination in church and 
state, of states-craft, of setting up of national 
power as taking the place of the rule of God over 
men's mentalities and consciousness. That is the 
kind of age we have been living in, but ' ' the time 
of the end" of that age is pretty nearly here. 
And it is to be succeeded by an age which is 
spoken of in the Book of Revelation, and which 
theologians refer to as "the millennium"; an age 
when human selfishness shall largely cease ; when 

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men will be governed, not by kings and emperors 
or potentates, but when, under God, they will gov- 
ern themselves; an age when fellowmen shall be 
more highly regarded than money; when it will be 
regarded as a crime to put immature children to 
work in factories in order to coin gold out of their 
blood. That sort of thing, which is typical of tens 
of thousands of similar procedures which occur in 
our present state of so-called civilization, is a 
thing which will be unheard of in the age that is 
coming. A time is near when no one will think of 
selling distilled poison to his neighbor in order to 
swell his own bank account; a time when the rul- 
ing spirit of the age will not be materiality and 
carnality, but when the knowledge of God and 
obedience to the Most High ' ' shall cover the earth 
as the waters cover the sea." That is the kind 
of an age or cycle into which we are soon to come. 
And he that shall endure to the end of this age or 
cycle shall be saved, and shall have the glorious 
privilege of entering into the next one — such a 
cycle of human development as none but the 
prophets of God have ever been able to conceive. 

"The Signs of the Times" 

Not only is such a " golden age" forecast in 

prophecy, but many of the present ''signs of the 

times" indicate that it is near at hand, and that 

we are already entering into the new order, even 

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while the old order is " dying hard" in giving 
birth, as it were, to the new. The two cycles over- 
lap a little, like the links of a chain. 

The Spread of Democracy 

One of the great signs of the coming "day of 
the Lord" is the spread of democracy. I was 
startled, the other day, when I chanced to pick 
up a Rand & McNally's Atlas of the World, and 
opened to the map of Asia, and saw printed in 
large letters across one of the largest of the polit- 
ical divisions, "Republic of China," the last place 
on the world 's map where, a few years ago, one 
would have expected to see the word "Republic" 
appear — a country containing about one-fourth of 
the world's population, shifted, in a few years, 
from the most typical absolutism and conserv- 
atism in government and custom to a clear recog- 
nition of the ideal of progressive self-government 
on the part of the people. 

The Approaching End of Absolutism 

And now Russia, with the great stretches of 
Siberia, has come, bringing a very large portion 
of the territory of the world, and a substantial 
share of its people under the republican ideal. 
To be sure, these new democracies may be turbu- 
lent and unstable as yet. They have not found 

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themselves; but it is clear that there will be no 
going back to former absolutism, — rather a going 
forward to enlightened and stable self-govern- 
ment. 

It has become clear that the present world-war 
is a struggle for mastery between the former 
ideal of government of the many by the few, and 
the ideal of the many governing themselves, rep- 
resentatively, under no domination but that of 
unchanging, unseen right and good; and there 
seems little doubt, now, as to which ideal will win. 
It would not surprise me if, within ten years, there 
is not a crowned head in the world. 

That this is no mere dream of an enthusiast, 
but is the confident expectation of people of the 
highest standing and responsibility, witness, for 
instance, the following words from the war mes- 
sage sent to the Congress of the United States, 
April 2, 1917, by President Wilson: 

"We are glad, now that we see the facts with no veil 
of false pretense about them, to fight thus for the ultimate 
peace of the world and for the liberation of its peoples, 
the German peoples included, for the rights of nations, 
great and small, and the privilege of men everywhere to 
choose their way of life and of obedience 

"The world must be made safe for democracy. Its 
peace must be planted upon the tested foundations of 
political liberty. We have no selfish ends to serve. We 
desire no conquest, no dominion. We seek no indemnities 
for ourselves, no material compensation for the sacrifices 
we shall freely make. 

"We are but one of the champions of the rights of 
mankind. We shall be satisfied when those rights have 
been made as secure as the faith and the freedom of 
nations can make them." 

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Also the following from Elihu Root, head of 
the American Mission to Russia, delivered to rep- 
resentatives of the Russian Government in Petro- 
grad, in June, 1917 : 

"Under the security of our own laws we have grown 
in strength and prosperity. But we value our freedom 
more than wealth. We love liberty and we cherish above 
all our possessions the ideals for which our fathers fought 
and suffered and sacrificed, that America might be free. 

"We believe in the competence of the power of democ- 
racy, and in our heart of hearts abides faith in the com- 
ing of a better world in which the humble and oppressed 
of all lands may be lifted up by freedom to a heritage of 
justice and equal opportunity. 

"We have faith in you all. We pray for God's bless- 
ing upon you all. We believe you will solve your prob- 
lems, will maintain your liberty, and that our two great 
nations will march side by side in the triumphant prog- 
ress of democracy until the old order everywhere has 
passed away and the world is free." 

World-Wide Temperance 

Then the movement for the suppression of alco- 
holism, which, as you all know is sweeping all 
over the world, and which is likely to soon bring 
our own country into freedom from this terrible 
curse, means much as a sign and seal of the higher 
order which is coming. 

Equal and Universal Suffrage 

Likewise, the spread of universal and equal 
suffrage, — already in force, even in Russia and 
China, — and coming soon in all the civilized coun- 
tries, means the elevation of women, and the giv- 

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ing to humanity in fuller measure the benefit of 
the exercise of those God-given faculties which 
are predominantly feminine in their nature. The 
larger independence of women means, on the 
whole, more intelligent selection in union through 
the marriage bond, and an improved human race 
in consequence. 

The Rights of Humanity Superior to Property- 
Rights 

As already indicated, there are many signs that 
the rights of humanity are coming to be regarded 
as paramount over the so-called rights of prop- 
erty, when there is any conflict between the two, 
— a reversal of the prevailing order in the history 
of the world thus far. When this ideal is realized, 
together with the coming in of universal democ- 
racy, both political and industrial strife, resulting 
in blood-shed, will cease from the earth. 

The Destructibility of Matter and Physical 

Energy Now Admitted 

That which is of greater significance than all 
the rest of "the signs of the times" is the changed 
attitude of the teachings of natural science with 
regard to matter and physical energy. Until quite 
recently, it was held that matter, while changeable 
as to its various forms, was resolvable into ulti- 

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mate atoms, which were regarded as eternal and 
indestructible ; and so matter, fundamentally, was 
considered to be indestructible. Then there was 
the doctrine of "the conservation of energy," 
which held that the amount of physical force in 
the universe, while assuming various forms, was 
a fixed quantity, which could not be increased or 
diminished, or destroyed. At present, the gradu- 
ates from the departments of physics and chem- 
istry of many, if not all, of the leading colleges 
and universities know that it is considered by the 
world's leading investigators of matter and force, 
that both are gradually wasting away in favor of 
nothing; and so those now schooled in the learn- 
ing of the world can agree with St. Paul in declar- 
ing that, * ' The things that are seen are temporal 
(temporary), while the things that are not seen 
are eternal." 

The Coming Cycle of the Reign of Spirit 

Once it is admitted that matter and physical 
force are destructible, that is equivalent to admit- 
ting that they are, in the absolute sense, "unreal," 
as even Mr. Herbert Spencer agreed. In conse- 
quence, the so-called laws of the so-called mate- 
rial universe are not real laws, and cannot, there- 
fore, be held to be either God's laws, or to be in 
real contravention to the laws of Spirit, the laws 
of which are eternal, unvarying, and so, supreme 

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and real. Thus, as a result of the change that has 
come in the teachings of the world's learning, the 
historic " warfare between religion and science" 
is being done away with, and will vanish com- 
pletely. It will soon come to be known by all men 
that Spirit is the only real substance, and that the 
manifestations of Spirit, God, Good, are the only 
real law and the only real power. This will trans- 
form humanity's point of view, change the basis 
of human reliance and usher in the age of the 
Spirit, to displace the cycle of materialism 
through which humanity has passed, thus far. 
Verily, as I have already said, the days foretold 
in the old prophecy are upon us, when, "The 
knowledge of God shall cover the earth as the 
waters cover the sea." This, above all else, will 
bring in health, harmony and holiness. 

The Time of Dread Near at Hand 

But between the present time and the coming 
in of that next cycle there is to ensue for the world 
at large a period of upheaval and distress and 
suffering such as has never been known of in 
human history, and it will try men's souls.* Fore- 

*If this time of suffering shall prove to be less severe than 
has been foretold in various prophecies, and than is forecast 
in this book, it will be because of intelligent and effectual 
turning to God, on behalf of the world, by rightly instructed 
metaphysical workers, of whom there are already many in 
the world, in ways indicated further on. 

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seeing this period, Mrs. Eddy has written, begin- 
ning on page 95 of "Science and Health," the 
following : 

Mrs. Eddy's Prophecy 

"Lulled by stupefying illusions, the world is asleep 
in the cradle of infancy, dreaming away the hours. Ma- 
terial sense does not unfold the facts of existence; but 
spiritual sense lifts human consciousness into eternal 
Truth. Humanity advances slowly out of sinning sense 
into spiritual understanding; unwillingness to learn all 
things rightly, binds Christendom with chains. 

"Love will finally mark the hour of harmony, and 
spiritualization will follow, for Love is Spirit. Before er- 
ror is wholly destroyed, there will be interruptions of the 
general material routine. Earth will become dreary and 
desolate, but summer and winter, seedtime and harvest 
(though in changed forms), will continue unto the end — 
until the final spiritualization of all things. 'The darkest 
hour precedes the dawn.' 

"This material world is even now becoming the arena 
for conflicting forces. On one side there will be discord 
and dismay; on the other side there will be Science and 
peace. The breaking up of material beliefs may seem to 
be famine and pestilence, want and woe, sin, sickness, and 
death, which assume new phases until their nothingness 
appears. These disturbances will continue until the end of 
error, when all discord will be swallowed up in spiritual 
Truth. 

"Mortal error will vanish in a moral chemicalization. 
This mental fermentation has begun, and will continue 
until all errors of belief yield to understanding. Belief 
is changeable, but spiritual understanding is changeless. 

"As this consummation draws nearer, he who has 
shaped his course in accordance with divine Science will 
endure to the end. As material knowledge diminishes and 
spiritual understanding increases, real objects will be 
apprehended mentally instead of materially. 

"During this final conflict, wicked minds will endeavor 
to find means by which to accomplish more evil; but 
those who discern Christian Science will hold crime in 
check. They will aid in the ejection of error. They will 
maintain law and order, and cheerfully await the certain- 
ty of ultimate perfection." 

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The End of the Present Cycle 

We are now in the midst of the greatest war 
and the greatest suffering that the world has 
experienced thus far. Of course, there have been 
places and times in the world's history where peo- 
ple have endured as much as they now are endur- 
ing in Europe, but such trouble never was so wide- 
spread before. At the time of the fall of Jeru- 
salem there was as great suffering in Palestine, 
I suppose, as there now is in Europe. There have 
been spots, here and there at times, when human- 
ity has suffered as keenly, but never before has 
there been any such war, upheaval and disturb- 
ance as we are now in the midst of, and this is 
but the beginning of sorrows; for after the war, 
or maybe even before it closes, comes the famine ; 
and on the heels of the famine, the plague, which 
always follows where there are extreme degrees 
of starvation. There is no telling how many calam- 
ities in the way of earthquakes, floods, droughts, 
may occur; but after the war, famine; and after 
the famine, the plague; and what the world has 
experienced thus far is but "the beginning of 
sorrows," because that which is coming over the 
world is not going to strike just the men in the 
trenches, nor is it just going to take away from 
homes some of the male members, but it will 
spread through and among the people generally 

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and take women and children as well. I cannot 
say how severe it will be in any particular place, 
as here in Oregon, but any one who can read the 
signs of the times as much as he can discern the 
face of the sky knows that what I am saying is 
true. He that is able to go through it and endure 
unto the end of it shall be saved from it and enter 
upon the most wonderful period, the happiest 
period, the most joyous period the world has ever 
known. 

How We May Survive the Period of 
Catastrophe 

And how is a man to endure unto the end? We 
are told in the second chapter of Acts, that "he 
who shall call on the name of the Lord shall be 
saved," even when "the sun shall be darkened 
and the moon turned into blood.' ' "When the 
sun shall be darkened, ' ' — that is, when the human 
sense of the light of divine Mind or God, of whom 
the sun is the scriptural symbol, is obscured. 
"When the moon shall be turned to blood" — that 
is, when the light of the Christ, who should be 
regarded as "the prince of peace," whose light 
is reflected from God as the light of the moon is 
reflected from the sun, shall be perverted, on 
account of sectarian differences, to become the 
occasion of bloody strife. 

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as being the only power, the only remedy for 
every human ill, shall be saved. 

An Unfortunate Mistranslation 

The Authorized Version of the Bible tells us: 
"Believe on the name of the Lord Jesus Christ 
and thou shalt be saved." I am sorry that this 
verse appears in the Scripture in that way, in our 
most widely read English version, because it leads 
so many million people to depend on that which in 
the hour of need proves to be a rope of sand. The 
Greek verb pisteuo does not mean " believe," 
according to modern idiomatic English. The pre- 
cise sense which it should convey is, know God 
exactly and then rely on that knowledge. The 
Greek word onoma does not mean "name," but 
it means "nature" or "character," according to 
modern English. 

Rely on the Character of the Lord Jesus Christ 

I will promise you one thing. Those of you who 
acquaint yourselves with the character of the 
Lord Jesus Christ, and then confidently rely on 
your detailed knowledge of that character, as your 
guide for thought, feeling and conduct, every day 
and in time of trouble, as you rely on your knowl- 
edge of arithmetic when you have a problem to 
solve, — if you have a detailed knowledge of that 
character, and rely on it in the same confident 

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Attention is called to page 40: The mis-spelling of the 
word "Brahmin"; to page 33: The paragraph beginning: 
"The mind knows, &c," should read, "The mine knows, 
&c"; to page 61: The mis-spelling of the word "led." 



-yineifectually, — and to have no answer in conse- 
quence. But those of you who are able to call on 
thesname of the Lord in the time of trouble in 
some\such sense as those of you who are accoun- 
tants claU on your knowledge of mathematics when 
you hav^ accounts to reckon up, or as those of 
you who are chemists call on your knowledge of 
chemistry ito work out intricate problems, or as 
those of you who are musicians call upon your 
knowledge of harmony and rhythm to bring forth 
an acceptable rendition; those of you who have 
Greek verb pisteuo does not mean "believe," 
according to modern idiomatic English. The pre- 
cise sense whichxit should convey is, know God 
exactly and then rely on that knowledge. The 
Greek word ono ma does not mean "name," but 
it means "nature" or "character," according to 
modern English. /\ 

Rely on the Character of the Lord Jesus Christ 
I will promise you one tIKng. Those of you who 
acquaint yourselves with ti^e character of the 
Lord Jesus Christ, and then\onfidently rely on 
your detailed knowledge of that character, as your 
guide for thought, feeling and conduct, every day 
and in time of trouble, as you rely on, your knowl- 
edge of arithmetic when you have a problem to 
solve, — if you have a detailed knowledge of that 
character, and rely on it in the same confident 

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way, you will be saved, and you will come through, 
at "the time of the end," to live in that glorious 
millennium which is to follow. 

Futility of Belief 

A man might believe in arithmetic. He might 
be fully convinced that there is such a science and 
that it is very important. He might go out on 
the streets of the Town, shouting and proclaiming, 
"/ believe in arithmetic. Formerly, I did not, but 
I have been converted and I believe in arithme- 
tic": and still, if he did not know anything about 
it in detail, it would not help him a bit and he 
couldn't solve one problem. Anybody could cheat 
him in a deal, any time. 

I want to tell you that, if you are relying on a 
belief in God or His Christ to save you in this 
world or the next, without a knowledge of the 
nature of God and of the character of Jesus 
Christ, you are leaning on that which will prove a 
broken reed. It will not help you a bit. You will 
never get anywhere with that. But if you learn 
to know your God, to know His characteristic 
manifestations in detail and to know that each 
one is all-powerful and specific in its own realm, 
and to know that, when confidently relied upon 
and intelligently applied, it is a law of annihila- 
tion to all that opposes it in human experience, 

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then you will understand the character and nature 
of the Lord Jesus Christ, and your reliance on 
that will save you in this time and every other 
time if you intelligently practice such reliance in 
sufficient degree. 

The Method of Prophecy 

Now, in order that you may understand the 
whole situation a little more clearly, and that you 
may have more confidence in the forecastings 
given us by the prophets, and in order that you 
may understand your own way, both now and in 
the time of dread that is coming on most people, 
I am going to uncover to you, in a few minutes, 
how it is that the prophets were able to forecast 
the future and how you can learn to know what is 
coming and so to prophesy. To do that, it is nec- 
essary for us to get a clear understanding, which 
we can quite briefly, of the three levels in which 
human consciousness works or may work. 

The Three Levels of Consciousness 

Our starting point is the level of what may be 
termed brain-mentation;* that is, the ordinary, 
every-day, "natural" consciousness of the vast 
majority of men and women. Below that is the 



*See Appendix II. 

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great realm of sub-consciousness, of which I shall 
have more to say later on. Above the level of 
brain-mentation is the level of super-conscious- 
ness, divine Mind, God. The terms "above" and 
"below" have nothing to do with directions in 
space, but refer to higher and lower mental quali- 
ties. Those are the three levels in which we work, 
or may work. 

A Pertinent Illustration 
In order that you may understand these, let me 
use an illustration. You go up, some day, near 
the top of a high mountain, and you may find 
yourself, up there, in the region of the clouds, 
and while you are in the region of the clouds, you 
will find that the clouds limit and narrow your 
vision. You cannot see through them; they 
obscure and shut you in. Descend a little, and 
you get below the level of the clouds and then the 
whole earth region is spread out before you. You 
can see, for miles and miles and miles, the rivers 
and streams and forests, and the villages and 
cities, if there are any. All the details of the earth 
are open before you, though the whole landscape 
appears darkened because of the clouds. If you 
ascend, you will get above the region of the clouds, 
and then the illimitable sky-order with the bound- 
less light of the sun is before you. No forms or 
shapes there — all great, clear, boundless light. 

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A Concentrator and Reflector 

While you are in the cloud-region, if you could 
climb up somewhere toward the upper stratum of 
the clouds, and if you had some kind of a large 
and powerful reflector and concentrator, so that 
you could catch the light of the sun and reflect it 
on the clouds round about you, intensifying the 
light, as the headlight of a locomotive reflects and 
concentrates the light, or as what is known as a 
burning glass catches and focuses the rays of the 
sun on a piece of paper, until it burns ; if you had 
such a reflector and concentrator — a very large 
one — and could turn it on the clouds and dissipate 
them, what would happen then! Why, the whole 
earth-order would be spread out before you in 
detail, just as before, except that it would now 
be lighted by the full sunlight, and seen more 
clearly, in consequence — not because you went 
down and got in contact with it, but because you 
went up higher, got command of the sunlight, and 
by means of the reflector and concentrator dissi- 
pated the clouds. And then what? So far as you 
are concerned, the clouds are gone; everything 
below open; everything above open; everywhere, 
so far as you are concerned, the clouds are all 
swept away. 

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Psychics and Mediums 

Well, now, there are some people who have a 
knack of descending from the region of brain- 
mentation into the region of sub-consciousness. 
These are the people who go into a so-called 
trance. They are called mediums or psychics. 
What is it that happens ? In the degree that they 
get below brain-mentation, they come into the 
realm of sub-consciousness; that is, into some- 
thing like the full consciousness of the earth- 
realm. Everything in the earth-realm is known 
coincidentally in the sub-consciousness; the past, 
the present and the future are all there. That is, 
the sub-conscious mind at its deepest level is 
omniscient as to the earth-order, though it knows 
nothing of the spiritual order. The concepts of 
the earth-order are describable as material, tem- 
porary, imperfect and finite, or limited. It is the 
order of shape and change. It is the order of 
un-Godlike mentality; for divine Mind, "the mind 
which was also in Christ Jesus, ' ' thinks in terms 
of the spiritual, the eternal, the perfect and the 
infinite. The sub-conscious mind is what Jesus 
called the Devil, of which he said: "He abode 
not in the truth, for there is no truth in him." It 
is the order of falsehood, unreality, although its 
presentations seem very real to human experience. 



Psychism Condemned 

Now anyone descending into the region of the 
sub-consciousness, if he gets into it sufficiently, 
can, if he wants to, tell where somebody's grand- 
father hid his will. He can tell you what your 
sister in California is doing just now, if he wants 
to. If he gets clear down into it and fully into 
it, he can tell you anything about what is going 
on in the war in Europe, or what is transpiring 
in Timbuctoo, or what happened in Hong Kong 
yesterday or is likely to happen tomorrow or next 
year; but I want to tell you that the practice of 
descending from brain-mentation into sub-con- 
sciousness is damnable and deadly in its effect. 
It amounts to endeavoring to become possessed 
of a "familiar spirit". The Scripture wisely 
counsels: "Regard not them which have familiar 
spirits'' (Lev. 19:31), and repeats this advice 
directly and by implication at least a dozen times. 

No Communication with Departed Spirits 

Because they do not understand the mental 
operations which they experience, many psychics, 
when they go partially or wholly into "trance" 
and see "visions" and hear "voices" and get in- 
formation in ways that are abnormal and unusual 
from the standpoint of most peoples' experience, 
— these psychics, being unable to account for their 

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experiences in any other way, suppose that they 
have gotten in mental communication with the 
" spirits" of those who have died and "passed 
to another world", when, as a matter of fact, they 
are simply getting direct mental impressions from 
what is stored in the deeper levels of their own 
sub-consciousness, which is identical with the sub- 
consciousness of all mortals, past, present and 
future, and contains a record of their mortal ex- 
periences, though nothing of spiritual fact or 
truth. 

Psychic Phenomena Explained 

Many "mediums" will insist that they see the 
form or get communications in the peculiar ver- 
nacular of an "old Indian chief", or some other 
queer personality, or that the form or voice, or 
both, of some departed relative appears to them, 
and gives them information, and these "spirits" 
they regard as "guides". As they go into partial 
or complete "trance" (mental "transition" from 
brain-mentation to sub-consciousness), they do 
get in mental touch with the sub-conscious realm, 
in which are preserved the records of the forms, 
voices, sayings, and deeds of all mortals who have 
ever lived, as a phonograph record preserves the 
song or speech of one who spoke into the instru- 
ment years ago, and they get into mental touch 

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with the sub-conscious mental currents which 
energized through them. Feeling this mental 
touch, and being influenced by it, their own men- 
talities objectify the forms, voices and pictures 
which they experience, just as your dream-con- 
sciousness, at night, objectifies persons, voices, 
scenes, and surroundings which have no real exist- 
ence — no existence apart from the dream itself. 
To quite an extent, those who are in " trance" see 
and hear what they "went into trance" expecting 
to see or hear, though, once in touch with the sub- 
conscious mental realm, it may influence their 
personal mentalities to have many experiences 
which were not expected. Once the personal men- 
tality has thrown itself into contact with the sub- 
consciousness, it may be caught and carried along 
in its experiences by the mental currents of that 
realm as a man embarking in skiff on a river 
might be carried along by the current into regions 
and scenes which he had not anticipated. 

"Materializations" at "Seances" Interpreted 

But, at "seances", groups of people often see, 
or think they see, the "materialization" of some 
departed "spirit", in such a way that they all 
have a uniform sense of what they see. How is 
this possible, if there is not some actual object 
before them to induce this uniform impression? 

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It is because, under the influence of those who are 
leading "the circle", and under the influence of 
group-consciousness, stimulated by expectation, 
they all come more or less into touch with the 
realm of sub-consciousness, which is hypnotic in 
its effect, and so they are all brought into one 
circle of hypnosis, and their mentalities objectify 
the uniform picture, largely in accordance with 
the expectation of the one or more persons whose 
thought is guiding the ' ' seance ' \ But, when their 
mentalities come into contact with the sub-con- 
scious realm, they may contact mental currents 
which are running there that will cause the whole 
group to have mental experiences, and to think 
that they see forms or hear voices, that were un- 
expected by anyone present. 

Mrs. Eddy's Explanation of Psychic 
Phenomena 

In explanation of the phenomena of psychism 
and of so-called spiritualism, Mrs. Eddy has writ- 
ten, on pages 86 and 87 of "Science and Health", 
as follows: 

"Mortals evolve images of thought. These may appear 
to the ignorant to be apparitions; but they are mysterious 
only because it is unusual to see thoughts, though we can 
always feel their influence. Haunted houses, ghostly 
voice's, unusual noises, and apparitions brought out in dark 
seances either involve feats by tricksters, or they are 
images and sounds evolved involuntarily [out of sub-con- 
sciousness] by mortal mind. Seeing is no less a quality 

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of physical sense than feeling. Then why is it more dif- 
ficult to see a thought than to feel one? Education alone 
determines the difference. In reality there is none. 

"Portraits, landscape paintings, facsimiles of penman- 
ship, peculiarities of expression, recollected sentences, can 
all be taken from pictorial thought and memory [the 
region of the sub-consciousness] as readily as from objects 
cognizable by the senses. Mortal mind sees what it be- 
lieves as certainly as it believes what it sees. It feels, 
hears and sees its own thought. Pictures are mentally 
formed before the artist can convey them to the canvas. 
So it is with all material conception. Mind-readers per- 
ceive these pictures of thought. They copy or reproduce 
them, even when they are lost to the memory of the [con- 
scious] mind in [the sub-consciousness of] which they 
are discoverable. 

"It is needless for the thought or for the person hold- 
ing the transferred picture to be individually and con- 
sciously present. Though individuals have passed away, 
their mental environment remains to be discerned, de- 
scribed and transmitted. Though bodies are leagues apart 
and their associations forgotten, their associations float 
in the general atmosphere [the sub-consciousness] of 
human mind. 

"The Scotch call such vision 'second sight,' when real- 
ly it is first sight instead of second, for it presents primal 
facts to mortal mind. Science enables one to read the 
human mind, but not as a clairvoyant. It enables one to 
heal through Mind, but not as a mesmerist. 

"The mind knows naught of the emeralds within its 
rocks, the sea is ignorant of the gems within its caverns, 
of the corals, of its sharp reefs, of the tall ships that float 
on its bosom, or of the bodies which lie buried in its 
sands; yet these are all there. Do not suppose that any 
mental concept is gone because you do not think of it. 
The true concept is never lost. The strong impressions 
produced on mortal mind by friendship or by any intense 
feeling are lasting [in sub-consciousness], and mind- 
readers can perceive and reproduce these impressions." 

Caution Against Psychic Practices 

Have no partnership with the practices or per- 
formances of psychics and mediums, and place no 

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reliance in such testimony. Even though they are 
able to report about things and events that are 
distant, and about events past or future, in a 
very unusual and wonderful way, you will note, 
if you have had any previous experience with 
them, that they almost never foretell or report 
anything good. The reason is, that they are in 
touch with the realm of the sub-consciousness, in 
which, from the absolute standpoint, nothing but 
the order of limitation and evil inheres; so they 
cannot get in touch with any good. They may 
sometimes forecast a coming journey, or the 
receipt of some money, or some other so-called 
good of the material order, but of real good, of 
the experiences of the good of God, they have no 
report to make. From even the human stand- 
point, they are generally "prophets of ill". 

Mediums Unwittingly Sell Themselves to the 
Devil 

It will be noted that those who endeavor to fore- 
cast the future, or to read mortal mind, through 
getting in touch with the sub-consciousness, do not 
even profess to take any thought of God, in doing 
so. Their method of procedure is to immerse 
themselves in the "sea of sub-consciousness", and 
thus, usually without understanding the signifi- 
cance of what they are doing, they, "sell them- 

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selves to the devil", for the price of a little un- 
usual mortal mind information, received in an 
unusual way, and almost wholly of the order that 
one would prefer not to hear about. 

The More Excellent Way 

The prophet Isaiah has well said : 

"And when they shall say unto you, Seek unto them 
that have familiar spirits, and unto wizzards that peep, 
and that mutter: should not a people seek unto their 
God? to the living (God), instead of to the dead?" (Isa. 
8:19). 

This is much the better way for every kind of 
knowledge that one may need ; for if one, neglect- 
ing for the time being the region of the sub-con- 
sciousness, will go higher, reaching up toward 
God, becoming acquainted with God, with the 
boundless Light, — that is, becoming acquainted 
with universal love, with universal intelligence, 
with universal joy, with universal peace, with uni- 
versal liberty, with universal justice, with univer- 
sal purity, and dozens of other divine manifesta- 
tions that I might mention, all of which are illim- 
itable, but all of which have identity with bound- 
less light, getting into that higher realm, getting 
command of that light, which is the sunlight of 
God, you can cause it to energize in your mental- 
ity so that it serves the purpose of a powerful 
spiritual reflector and concentrator, catching light 

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from higher Light and concentrating that light 
upon the cloud realm, upon the mist, upon the fog 
of brain-mentation and the limitations of carnal 
mind, and if you succeed in doing this, you will be 
released, for the time being and as long as you 
succeed in doing it, from the cloud realm, from 
the limits of brain-mentation. Then what? All 
the earth-order of knowledge is spread out before 
you more clearly than to him who descends to 
sub-consciousness. You go higher and get all, 
even of the lower order, spread out before you, 
because the intervening clouds, with their limits, 
have been swept away. Not only is the earth- 
order spread out, but also the sky-order, the Light 
of the Christ, who declared, "I am the light of 
the world; he that followeth me shall not sit in 
darkness, but shall have the light of life." No 
limitations. Everything pertaining to humanity, 
past, present and future, stretched out before you 
like the details of the hills and valleys to one on 
a high mountain; and all the joys of the illimit- 
able God above. And then from that higher stand- 
point, you can read the past, present and the 
future; not because you went down, but because 
you went up. Those who read mortal mind from 
this higher standpoint, do so without immersing 
themselves in it or becoming subject to it. They 
read it as masters by rising above it, and in a 
measure control it, instead of its controlling them. 

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How the Prophets Forecast the Future 

Now, this is what happened in the case of the 
prophets. They were an order of men who, in 
order to know the past, present and futnre of 
humanity, did not go into sub-consciousness. 
They went up to God, and their realization and 
understanding and control of the light of God 
gave them power to sweep the clouds obscuring 
their human mentalities out of the way and then 
they knew what humanity had gone through, was 
going through, and will go through to the end. 

As confirmatory of what I have been saying, 
the following words of Mrs. Eddy are interesting 
and illuminating: 

"Mortal Mind Reading and Immortal Mind 
Reading' ' 

"Mortal mind-reading and immortal mind-reading are 
distinctly opposite standpoints, from which cause and ef- 
fect are interpreted. The act of reading mortal mind in- 
vestigates and touches only human beliefs. Science is im- 
mortal and co-ordinate neither with the premises nor with 
the conclusions of mortal beliefs. The ancient prophets 
gained their foresight from a spiritual, incorporeal stand- 
point. . . . When sufficiently advanced in Science to 
be in harmony with the truth of being, men become seera 
and prophets involuntarily, controlled not by demons, spir- 
its, or demigods, but by the one Spirit. It is the preroga- 
tive of the ever-present, divine Mind*, and of thought which 
is in rapport with this Mind, to know the past, the pres- 
ent, and the future. 

"Acquaintance with the Science of being enables us 
to commune more largely with the divine Mind, to foresee 
and foretell events which concern the universal welfare, 

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to be divinely inspired, — yea, to reach the range of fet- 
terless Mind. 

"It is recorded that Jesus, as he once journeyed with 
His students, 'knew their thoughts, 1 — read them scientifi- 
cally. In like manner he discerned disease and healed the 
sick. After the same method, events of great moment 
were foretold by the Hebrew prophets. Our Master re- 
buked the lack of this power when he said : 'Oh ye hypo- 
crites ! ye can discern the face of the sky ; but can ye not 
discern the signs of the times?' " 

*The phrase "divine Mind," as here used, evidently 
means a very high degree of spiritual intelligence, but can- 
not, in this connection, be taken to mean the absolute 
Mind ; for, in the realm of the absolute, which is the eter- 
nal order, there is no time ('Time is no part of eternity' — 
S. & H. 468:29), and, consequently, no past, present or 
future to be known by absolute Mind. On the other hand, 
God, Mind, cannot cognize the time order, which is the 
mortal order; for God is "of purer eyes than to behold 
evil, and cannot look upon iniquity;" and, from the abso- 
lute standpoint, the material order is "iniquity." 

A Moving Picture Illustrates 
Now, in order that you may understand exactly 
what you are to do if you want to be saved, — for 
illustration, suppose you go into a moving pic- 
ture show in the middle of the performance. 
There is a picture going on, spread out before 
you on the screen, swimming by. There is no 
substance there, though it appears as though 
there were. It seems so, but if you go down to 
the screen and reach out to it, you wouldn't get 
hold of those people or things which appear. The 
picture reels by for an hour, an hour and a half 
or two hours, may be, spread out before you, a 
succession of pictures, in time order. Now, you 
know, every part of that picture was reeled up 



in the box before it commenced to unfold. It is 
at the will of the operator as to how it is reeled 
out, fast or slow, and you have to take it as it 
comes if you stay there. If you enter in the mid- 
dle of the performance, some of the picture has 
been shown and reeled up on one reel in the box, 
and some hasn't been unreeled and shown yet. 
If you could go back to that box, and had an X-ray 
vision so you could look right into it, then you 
could get at one glance everything that had been 
shown and everything that was to be shown. You 
could get all the details of the picture at once, if 
you could look into the box. 

The Great, Original Cinematograph 

So far as the material, un-Godlike order is con- 
cerned, we may as well speak of it as an illusory 
moving picture; for our experience and dealings 
with it work out as though it were; and it has 
been so recognized by many great thinkers. For 
instance, Emmanuel Kant, in "The Critique of 
Pure Reason", declares; 

"All [real or spiritual] life is essentially only intel- 
lectual and not subject to time changes, neither beginning 
with birth nor ending with death. This world's life is 
only an appearance, a sensuous [perverted] image of 
the pure spiritual life, and the whole world of sense only 
a picture swimming before our present knowing faculty 
like a dream, and having no reality in itself. For if we 
should see things and ourselves as they are, we should 
see ourselves in a world of spiritual natures with which 
our entire real relation neither began at [supposed mor- 
tal] birth nor ended with the body's death." 



Martin Luther held the same views, as is indi- 
cated by the following paragraph concerning him 
from CasselPs "Universal History", by Oilier: 

"The fervour and moral purity of his life showed the 
perfect sincerity of the man; while the . . . mys- 
ticism of his speculations, which induced him to regard 
the visible world as an illusion, essentially evil and mis- 
leading, revealed a nature ill at ease with itself and its 
surroundings, but one from which great deeds might be 
expected." 

About 600 B. C., Arada, a renowned Bhamin 
teacher, wrote: 

"Putting away all desire and clearly recognizing the 
non-existence of matter, we reach a state of perfect empti- 
ness" [of all sense of that which is false]. 

About two centuries later, Plato, the renowned 
philosopher of ancient Greece, declared, in one of 
his books: 

"This world which appears to the senses has no true 
being, but only a ceaseless becoming; it is and it is not, 
and its comprehension is not so much knowledge as illu- 
sion." 

Parmenides, a Greek philosopher, born 488 B. 
C, as reported by Dr. Crozier in his "History of 
Intellectual Development", wrote as follows: 

"The material world . . . (is) a mere succes- 
sion of fleeting, ephemeral existences, coming into being 
and passing away as in a dream, or, like the images in 
a mirror, shadowy and illusory appearances, without real- 
ity or independent existence of their own." 

In the "Gospel of Buddha," arranged and 
translated by Dr. Paul Carus, we find the great 

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Eastern seer and teacher, who lived about 500 
B. C, reported as follows : 

"Look about you and contemplate life! Everything 
is transient and nothing endures. There is birth and 
death, growth and decay; there is combination and sep- 
aration. The glory of the world is like a flower; it 
stands in full bloom in the morning and fades in the heat 
of the day. Wherever you look, there is a rushing and a 
pushing, an eager pursuit of pleasures, a panic flight from 
pain and death, a vanity fair, and the flames of burning 
desires. The world is full of changes and transforma- 
tions. All is samsara [error, vanity]. All compound 
things shall be dissolved again, worlds will break to pieces 
and our [mortal] individualities [so-called] will be scat- 
tered ; but the words of Buddha will remain forever." 

The immortal Shakespeare in "The Tempest " 
makes one of the characters to speak thus con- 
cerning mortal man and the material universe : 

"We are such stuff as dreams are made of, 
And our little life is rounded with a sleep. 
The cloud-capped towers, the gorgeous palaces, 
The solemn temples, the great globe itself — 
Yea, all which it inherits — shall dissolve 
And, like this unsubstantial pageant faded, 
Leave not a rack behind." 

A little farther on, I shall give several quota- 
tions from our own Bible, indicating clearly its 
teaching of the destructibility and consequent 
unreality of matter and flesh. 

Count Leo Tolstoy wrote in his famous War 
Prophecy : 

"I see the passing show of the world-drama, how it 
fades like the glow of evening upon the mountains." 

Baha'o'llah, in the first paragraph of the "Book 
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of Ighan," makes the following significant decla- 
ration : 

"The servant of God shall never attain to the shore 
of the Sea of Knowledge except by complete severance 
from all that is in the [material] heavens and earth." 

It is very evident that we do not need ''sever- 
ance" from that which is good or real or true; 
so this statement by BahaVllah is equivalent to 
a declaration on his part that the material uni- 
verse is not God-made and is neither good, real or 
true; and so is to be regarded as transitory and 
illusory. 

Mr. F. L. Rawson's Interpretation 

Mr. F. L. Rawson, the widely known independ- 
ent Christian Science author, teacher and prac- 
titioner, of London, England, — formerly one of 
the most eminent mechanical, electrical and con- 
sulting engineers of Great Britain, long recog- 
nized as the leading British authority on new in- 
ventions, — in his epoch-making book, "Life Un- 
derstood",* and in his other publications,* includ- 
ing the weekly, "Active Service", which he edits, 
has developed in great detail, and in a very edify- 
ing way, the fact that the material universe may 
be regarded, and mentally dealt with, as an im- 



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mense cinematograph, or moving picture, all the 
details of which were pre-determined from its 
own beginning, and which, to adapt Kant's phrase, 
swims before the present knowing faculty of 
humans like a dream, having no reality in itself. 
And, as Mr. Rawson points out, humans must see 
and submit to the many unpleasant features of 
this cosmic moving picture, involving for them 
the experience of sin, disease, accident, poverty, 
limitation and death, pre-determined for them 
from the beginning of cosmic mortal belief, alias 
the devil, except in the case of those humans who 
learn how to turn to higher Mind, God, or get 
someone, who knows how, to do so for them, and 
apply the light and power of this Mind to erase 
and destroy at least the more evil features of the 
cosmic moving picture which otherwise would be 
imposed upon them as seeming reality, just as a 
spectator at an ordinary moving picture show, 
where the pictures on the screen are but a com- 
bination of light and shadow, might, if he had the 
control of a powerful searchlight, press the but- 
ton, turn on that light, whenever the pictures did 
not suit him, and cause them partially or wholly 
to disappear, in proportion to the intensity of the 
light which he could command to turn upon them. 

The Final Disappearance of Matter 
Thus far, humans have rarely attained the real- 
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ization and command of the light of Spirit suf- 
ficiently to erase from the cosmic moving pic- 
ture the lines and figures which represent the 
manifestations of matter; for these seem to be 
thrown into clear and strong relief, and, thus far, 
have generally proven indelible. But tens of 
thousands of humans, in various ages of the 
world, have had sufficient realization of the light 
of ever-present Mind to be able to so reflect this 
light upon the false moving picture which cosmic 
mortal belief was endeavoring to induce them to 
accept as themselves, as to erase from that pic- 
ture the elements named sin and disease, whether 
organic or inorganic, poverty, accident and dis- 
cord generally. They have also been able to delay 
indefinitely the coming of the death-picture upon 
their human consciousness; and, with increasing 
spirituality, they will ultimately destroy this al- 
together, as they finally will, also, those elements 
of the cosmic picture known as matter. Well has 
the prophet Isaiah declared : ' ' And all the host of 
heaven [material planets and stars, including the 
earth] shall be dissolved, and the heavens shall 
be rolled together as a scroll: and all their host 
shall fall down" (Isaiah 34:4) : even as the writer 
to the Hebrews represents God as declaring: "Yet 
once more I shake not the earth only, but also 
heaven. And this word, Yet once more, signifieth 
the removing of those things that are shaken, as 

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of things that are made [by mortal belief, which 
are not eternal, as are all the works of God], that 
those things which cannot be shaken may remain" 
(Heb. 12:26, 27). And Jesus declared, "Heaven 
and earth shall pass away but my words shall 
not pass away", which is exactly in line with the 
prophecy of John in the Eevelation, where he 
writes: "And I saw a new [eternal] heaven and 
a new earth: for the first heaven and the first 
earth were passed away." 

The Moving Picture Hypothesis is Practical 

So, let me repeat, we may deal with the so-called 
material universe in all phases of its presentation, 
as though it were an immense, long-drawn-out 
moving picture, into which we, personally, en- 
tered after the show was far progressed. The 
sum-total of cosmic mortal consciousness, the 
devil, is the operator, and we, so far as our 
mentalities are carnal and material, are offspring 
of the devil, "who abode not in the truth," as was 
the case with the mentalities of the Scribes and 
Pharisees, to whom Jesus said: "Ye are of your 
father the devil, and the lusts [behests] of your 
father, ye will do." There is a measure of car- 
nality in every one of us, which is offsprung from 
the devil; and the devil unreels the pictures of 
the material order to us and we have to take them 

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as they come, unless we know better, just as we 
would let the clouds on the mountain drift by and 
envelop us, if we did not know better. But if, up 
in the mountain, we could get hold of a large and 
powerful concentrator and reflector of the light 
of the sun, we could dissipate some of those clouds, 
and if in "the mountain of the Lord's house' ' 
(exalted spiritual consciousness) you gain a 
knowledge and command of the power of God, 
which is the boundless light, "the light that light- 
eth every man that cometh into the world," and 
foresee what the operator of mortal mind is going 
to unreel for you, if he is going to send clouds be- 
fore your vision which are filled with appearances 
named poverty, disease, want, pain, and all that 
kind of thing, if he is going to send such clouds as 
these drifting before or across your mentalities, 
and you "call on the name of the Lord," you turn 
to higher Mind, you get control of that higher 
Light and turn it on those dark pictures, you can 
largely erase and destroy them, burn them up, 
with the fire of the Holy Ghost. You con protect 
the region of your own mentalities and of others 
closely connected with you from being over- 
whelmed and apparently killed by those drifting 
clouds of evil which are coming over the world in 
the near future, destroying all save only those 
who know how to intelligently call on the name 
of the Lord and be saved. 
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Make Your Knowledge of God Practical 

Now, if you believe in God, if you believe in 
good, and if you believe that God is all-powerful, 
if you know He is, and that each of His manifesta- 
tions is all-powerful in its own realm, if you lay 
hold on liberty and apply it to the extermination 
of bondage, if you lay hold of divine Love and 
consciously apply it to the destruction of malice, 
jealousy, anger and revenge, if you consciously 
lay hold on Life, God's truth and being, and apply 
it to the destruction of the argument of death, if 
you will lay hold on Spirit, which is the only sub- 
stance that will endure, and apply your knowledge 
of that substance to the overcoming or controlling 
of matter which is but a false claim of substance, 
and really is only shadow, if you will stand with 
your God in consciously and intelligently turning 
down all that is unlike God in your experience, 
then it will not be blind faith on your part but 
intelligent action, and you will be saved. 

Death Unnecessary 

My friends, you do not need to die. It is not 
written in God's law that you shall. The Scrip- 
tures represent God as declaring, "Oh death, I 
will be thy plagues" (Hosea 13:14); and again, 
"I have no pleasure in the death of him that 
dieth, saith the Lord God; wherefore, turn your- 

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selves, and live ye" (Ezekiel 18:32). The Scrip- 
ture again speaks of Christ as he who "was mani- 
fest to destroy him who had the power of death, 
that is, the devil." 

"Death is the wages of sin, but the gift of God 
is eternal life." Death is not the law of God. 
The Son of God was sent into the world, not that 
you might have death, but that you might have life 
and have it more abundantly. "This is life eter- 
nal that they might know thee, the only true God 
and Jesus Christ whom thou hast sent." If you 
know God and know him fully, you will never die. 
"He that keepeth my saying shall never see 
death," saith the Christ. I will tell you that, if 
you die, in this time or any other time, it is be- 
cause you die under the law of the devil and not 
under the law of God, and the truth dwelleth not 
in the devil. Death is one of those pictures that 
comes along and deceives humanity. You can 
stave that off indefinitely. You do not need to 
suffer with sickness or to die. 

Rise to Higher Consciousness 

Get into that higher Light, in the light of which 
everything above and everything below is spread 
out before you, so you can see your way. In doing 
so, you get into that order of mentality which was 
also in Christ Jesus. Then, when you can see 
everything in the earth-order, where everything 

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is open and coincidently known, you can " speak 
with tongues" if you want to, as they did on the 
day of Pentecost. In "Science and Health", Mrs. 
Eddy, speaking of those activities of human men- 
tality which are in close touch with absolute Intel- 
ligence, declares: 

"Mind is not necessarily dependent upon , educational 
processes. It possesses of itself all beauty and poetry, 
and the power of expressing them. . . . We are 
all capable of more than we do. The influence or action 
of Soul confers a freedom, which explains the phenomena 
of improvisation and the fervor of untutored lips." 

Speaking with Tongues 

Human languages are mortal, not immortal. 
God neither knows nor speaks the English, the 
Latin or any other articulate language; but all 
human words, all languages, are stored up and 
known in general sub-conscious mind; and he be- 
fore whom this sub-conscious mind lies open in the 
light of higher Mind can read out of this lower 
mind, and speak, any language he chooses, with- 
out having previously studied it, as easily as you 
can read a newspaper. There are extant today 
quite a number of books written in this way. The 
so-called "Aquarian Gospel", by Levi, is one of 
them. 

Two Modern Persian Prophets and Seers 

It is reported, on apparently reliable authority, 
that Husain Ali, whose spiritual title is Baha'o' 

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llah, the founder of the modern Bahai movement, 
wrote books on subjects that he had never studied, 
one of which was a history of Greek philosophy, 
and that these books bear the test of the most 
critical scholarship as to their accuracy. It is 
also said that his son, Abdul Baha, who spent all 
his life, from childhood to old age, in a Turkish 
prison, with no opportunities for schooling, on 
being released at sixty-four years of age, trav- 
elled in Europe and spoke at will in private con- 
versation the languages of the various countries 
which he visited, though he delivered his public 
addresses in Persian. 

"And Nothing Shall be Impossible to You" 

It is well for us all to strive for that high 
degree of spirituality which, in proportion as we 
attain it, will set us free from the limitations of 
materiality and brain-mentation; for this will 
mean a completer freedom and higher usefulness 
for us in every way. It will enable us, for one 



In one of his "Tablets," Baha'o'llah wrote as follows con- 
cerning his ability to become acquainted with the world's 
learning without stut'y : — 

"Thou, indeed, knowest that we have never read the books 
of the people or ever become conversant with what they know 
of science. But whenever we wish to mention anything con- 
cerning the utterances of the learned and wise, that which 
is in existence and that which books and tablets contain 
become manifest before our face. Thus we see, and then 
write what we see." 

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thing, to know anything that we need to know, 
spiritual or material, instantly, and without any 
process of learning; that is, it will make us highly 
intuitive; and this same order of exalted con- 
sciousness uncovers sin, without effort, and de- 
stroys it in the uncovering process. 

True and False Methods of Uncovering Error 

That method of uncovering sin, which drags a 
confession of it out of a fellow human being by a 
process of mortal questioning and application of 
"the third degree", whether administered by a 
Christian Scientist, so-called, or by a police of- 
ficer, tending to make the so-called sinner fear- 
ful and humiliated, is often very harmful; and 
especially so, if the error so uncovered is pub- 
lished around the neighborhood, or in the news- 
papers. This is a mortal-mind uncovering of 
error, which, instead of destroying it, tends to 
multiply and propagate it, and to fix it upon the 
sinner. But, when error is uncovered, without 
mortal questioning, through spiritual discernment 
on the part of the Scientist, the same spirituality 
which uncovers it destroys it, or so largely so 
that, as Mrs. Eddy says in "Miscellaneous Writ- 
ings", "the remaining third destroys itself." In 
other words, the scientific uncovering of error and 
destruction of it are co-incident, and part of the 
same process. 

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Super- Consciousness Is Healing and 
Life -Giving 
Also, the attainment of what Mrs. Eddy aptly 
speaks of as "fetterless Mind", by rising above 
brain-mentation, enables one to heal all manner 
of disease, and prevent the approach of death. 
Very luminously has she written in ' ' Science and 
Health" the following paragraphs: 

"The admission to one's self that man is God's own 
likeness sets man [mankind] free to master the infinite 
idea. This conviction shuts the door on death, and opens 
it wide toward immortality. The understanding and rec- 
ognition of Spirit must finally come, and we may as well 
improve our time in solving the mysteries of being through 
an apprehension of divine Principle . . . Our Master 
easily read the thoughts of mankind, and this insight 
better enabled him to direct those thoughts aright. 

"Our Master read mortal mind on a scientific basis, 
that of the omnipresence of Mind. An approximation of 
this discernment indicates spiritual growth and union 
with the infinite capacities of the one Mind. . . . The 
effect of his Mind was always to heal and to save, and 
this is the only genuine Science of reading mortal mind. 
. . . We approach God, or Life, in proportion to our 
spirituality, our fidelity to Truth and Love; and in that 
ratio we know all human need and are able to discern the 
thought of the sick and the sinning for the purpose of 
healing them. Error of any kind cannot hide from the 
law of God. 

"Whoever reaches this point of moral culture and 
goodness cannot injure others, and must do them good. 
The greater or lesser ability of a Christian Scientist to 
discern thought scientifically, depends upon his genuine 
spirituality. This kind of mind-reading is not clairvoy- 
ance, but it is important to success in healing, and is one 
of the special characteristics thereof." 

How Super-Consciousness is Gained 

The progressive attainment of higher Mind is 
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brought about by learning to know God as fully 
and as much in detail as possible, and by living 
as close to the Absolute in thought, feeling and 
action as possible, and as continuously as we can. 
The process may be hastened by scientifically 
knowing that man really thinks by the action of 
infinite Mind, and never by the action of brain 
lobes ; that man is the reflection of infinite Spirit, 
and is never a form of matter; and that any ap- 
pearance to the contrary is absolutely false, and 
without divine power or any real power to main- 
tain itself in evidence, or to continue to enforce 
its false claim. There is no sub-consciousness, no 
cosmic mortal belief, no evil or devil, because God, 
the infinite Good, immortal Mind, never created 
His opposite, nor endowed His opposite with 
power ; and that which He has not created or en- 
dowed does not exist, even though it may appear, 
until the false appearance is destroyed by the 
application of Truth. 

The Coming Day of the Lord 

More and more, and very rapidly in these ' ' last 
days ' ', will mankind, all over the world, come into 
the understanding and progressive demonstration 
of this saving truth. 

The conditions will soon be favorable to the 
rapid spread and acceptance of this higher knowl- 
edge. As long as men are at least fairly com- 

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fortable on the plane of material living, the most 
of them will not turn to spiritual truth. Even 
when they are in trouble, as long as there is any 
seeming material help in sight, or as long as there 
is any visible seeming opponent that they can 
fight, they will continue to use carnal means and 
carnal weapons. At the present time, the vari- 
ous nations of the world think that certain other 
nations are their enemies, and so they are fight- 
ing each other. To use an inelegant but very 
applicable illustration, the situation is somewhat 
comparable to that of two cats, with their tails 
tied together by a bad boy, and thrown over a 
clothes-line. Each cat thinks that the other is the 
occasion of his discomfort, because the other cat 
is the thing in sight ; so they proceed to fight and 
tear each other in pieces; and the bad boy who 
is their real enemy looks on and laughs, being 
himself unharmed. They should not attack each 
other, but should help each other off the line, and 
attack the boy. Then their troubles would cease. 

The Enemy Uncovered 
Likewise, in a fundamental sense, no two human 
beings, and no groups of human beings, ever have 
any occasion to regard each other as enemies; 
and, if they knew how to employ the more excel- 
lent way, they would never quarrel with or fight 
against each other, either mentally, verbally or 
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physically. The one evil, cosmic sub-conscious- 
ness, the devil, the master of the cosmic moving 
picture show, ties humans together in social, com- 
mercial or political bonds, and then they find 
themselves in distress, because the relation is on 
a false, material basis; and then each person or 
group thinks that its distress is caused by the 
behavior of the other person or group; and then 
they fight. The fact is, that their discomfort, and 
the disposition to fight about it, is instilled into 
their mentalities by the one evil, the father of 
mortals, and the father of lies. If humans would 
regard each other and treat each other kindly 
and unselfishly, even when they were seeming to 
be used as agents in bringing distress upon each 
other, and would turn their attention to the sum- 
total of falsehood, by scientifically knowing that 
there is no evil, or devil, because God, the infinite 
Good, never made any; and that this false claim 
of evil has no power to continue to unreel pic- 
tures of discomfort and distress before them, or 
before mankind in general, they would then be 
attacking with the sword of the Spirit, and the 
Word of Truth, that which is their real enemy. 
Then they would begin to find deliverance from 
their distresses. Men never will find deliverance, 
as long as they fight each other, animated by evil 
passions, and using carnal weapons; but when 

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they treat each other lovingly, and turn upon the 
great lie, and liar, the devil, with their knowledge 
and mental enforcement of divine Truth and Love, 
their troubles will soon be over. 

"Man's Extremity is God's Opportunity" 
The present world-wide war will cease, sooner 
or later, from physical exhaustion, if for no other 
reason; and then men will cease to fight that 
which is in sight. But when the famine and the 
plague come upon them, in the measure that they 
are likely to, they will wake up to the fact that 
there is no help on a material basis. Then they 
will do what men generally do, when all material 
means have failed. They will turn to God, the 
Spirit, which is the source of real power. Then, 
indeed, "man's extremity" will prove to be 
"God's opportunity". Men and women, all over 
the world, will be ready to learn how to intelli- 
gently "call on the name of the Lord, and be 
saved. ' ' 

The Gospel in All the World 

The Science of God, and of His law and power, 
is already known, and widely disseminated in the 
world, through the discovery and teachings of 
Mrs. Eddy, founded upon the teachings of the 
Bible ; and the conditions of modern life are such, 
with its railroads, steamships, telegraphs, ocean 

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cables, wireless instruments, and its facilities for 
printing, that the knowledge of the Truth, and the 
scientific method of its application, could be made 
known to practically the whole world in a single 
day, if desired. So, when, under the pressure of 
necessity, men come to "hunger and thirst after 
righteousness" (right-wise-ness), the conditions 
are such that they can be given the needful knowl- 
edge without delay. And so it seems very likely 
that the prophecy of Jesus will be fulfilled, that 
"This gospel of the kingdom shall be preached 
in all the world for a witness unto all nations; 
and then shall the end [of this age, and the 
commencement of the next one] come." 

Then there will be demonstrated in present ex- 
perience the prophecy in the second chapter of 
Isaiah : 

"And it shall come to pass in the last days, that the 
mountain of the Lord's house shall be established in the 
top of the mountains, and shall be exalted above the hills ; 
and all nations shall flow unto it. And many people shall 
go and say, Come ye, and let us go up to the mountain of 
the Lord, to the house of the God of Jacob; and he will 
teach us His ways, and we will walk in His paths ; for out 
of Zion shall go forth the law, and the word of the Lord 
from Jerusalem. And he shall juclge among the nations, 
and shall rebuke many people; and they shall beat their 
swords into plowshares, and their spears into pruning- 
hooks; nation shall not lift up sword against nation, 
neither shall they learn war any more." 

That is the blessed time that is coming, and in 
a very few years. 

Know Grod, rely on Him, be saved, and enter 
into the coming joys eternal. 

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SUPPLEMENT 



Day of Pentecost 
"Hearing, Every Man in His Own Language' ' 

(Portion of a lecture delivered in Chicago, June 10th, 1917) 



What Constitutes an Explanation 

To explain a mystery, is to give an understand- 
ing of the conditions under which the phenom- 
enon occurred, to classify it by showing its rela- 
tion to other similar phenomena, and to show 
how, under like conditions, the phenomenon would 
be repeated. 

Errors by Reversal May Serve as Way-Marks 

to Truth 

You will recall that, on the Day of Pentecost, 
the disciples of Jesus, being Galilaeans, began 
to speak in their own language the wonderful 
works of God; and men in the assembled crowd, 
"from every nation under heaven ", to their 
amazement, began to hear them, not in the lan- 
guage they were speaking, but every man in his 
own language. 

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Since, as Mrs. Eddy has declared, "by reversal, 
errors serve as way marks to the one Mind" (S. 
& H., 267:24), and again, "If mortals are in- 
structed in spiritual things, it will be seen that 
material belief, in all its manifestations reversed, 
will be found the type and representative of ver- 
sities, priceless, eternal and just at hand (Misc. 
Writ., page 60), let me relate to you two experi- 
ences on the plane of error which may serve as 
"way marks" in enabling us to understand this 
Pentecostal phenomenon of hearing in many lan- 
guages the words of one speaker through the 
operation of higher Mind. 

The Experience of a Merchant 

Quite a number of years ago, there lived in a 
village in Ohio a merchant whom we will call 
Mr. S. The only daughter of Mr. and Mrs. S. 
was attending college at Akron, Ohio, — a college 
in which there was a dormitory for the women, 
presided over by a Miss B., who was also one of 
the professors in the college, and was much be- 
loved by the girls. 

The Conditions at the Time 

One evening, in the winter time, just after din- 
ner, Mr. and Mrs. S. were sitting in their living 
room, with their backs toward a center table, on 



which was a large parlor lamp, with a shade, 
from under which light fell upon the magazines 
which they were reading. There was no other 
light in the room, and, in consequence, the outer 
portions and corners of the room were compara- 
tively dark. 

An Experience Mentally Transferred 

As Mr. S. sat there reading, he suddenly heard, 
in tones of fright and agony, in his daughter's 
voice, the words: "Papa! Papa!" Startled, he 
looked up from his paper, and saw in the dusky 
corner of the room the figure of his daughter out- 
lined in a sheet of fire. He immediately addressed 
his wife, "Mama, did you hear Erma call?" She 
replied, "Why no. What do you mean?" Then 
he told her of the experience which he had just 
had. She laughed at him, and they both thought 
the circumstance queer, but dropped it from 
thought in a few moments. But, in half an hour, 
a telegram came, saying that his daughter had 
been burned to death. 

What Lead to the Occurrence 

It was the lady-principal's birthday, at the col- 
lege; and the girls had arranged a celebration in 
her honor. One of them had written a poem for 
the occasion ; another had set it to the music of a 

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chant; and a dozen of the girls, including Miss 
S., had robed themselves as muses, their gowns 
having been made from Canton flannel, which is 
very inflammable. The gowns had long, flowing 
sleeves. 

The Birthday Celebration 

After dinner, the girls assembled in the par- 
lor, and, when all was ready, a messenger was 
sent up to Miss B.'s room, saying that someone 
wished to see her in the parlor. As she came in, 
the girls who were seated around the outside of 
the room rose and gave her the Chautauqua salute. 
From a side room, the twelve girls came dancing 
out in a row, singing the chant. They formed a 
circle around the center table, caught hold of 
hands, began waving their hands up and down, 
circling about the table and dancing to the music 
of the chant. 

The Tragic Ending 

Over the center table there was an old-fashioned 
gas chandelier, with the arms hanging rather low, 
and at the end of each was an unprotected gas 
flame. Miss S. accidentally swung the flowing 
sleeve of her garment against one of the flames, 
and the fire ran over her gown as quickly as 
though it had been gun-powder. Frightened, she 

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gasped for breath, inhaled a full breath of the 
flame, and seemed to realize instantly that she 
was killed. She cried twice, "Papa! Papa!" and 
fell down dead. Of course, it was in the self-same 
instant that her father heard the cry at her home, 
sixty or seventy miles away. 

Interpretation of the Phenomenon 

Now, of course, he did not hear those words, 
nor see her in a sheet of flame, in the ordinary 
way. That is, the sound waves did not travel in 
the atmosphere those seventy miles, nor did the 
light waves pierce the walls of the college, travel 
the seventy miles, pierce the walls of his home, 
and strike his eyes after the manner of ordinary 
vision, judged from the physical standpoint. 

Transference Through the Sub-Consciousness 

What did happen was as follows : Through the 
medium of universal sub-consciousness, concern- 
ing the nature and activities of which I have in- 
formed you in previous lectures, the daughter's 
state of feeling was immediately transferred to 
the father. Such transfer is going on all the 
time, regardless of so-called distance, between 
people who are closely related in thought and in- 
terest; but, ordinarily, an impulse passing from 
one to the other is not strong enough to break 

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down the natural barrier that usually seems to 
exist between the conscious mind of a person and 
the region of the sub-consciousness. Otherwise, 
peoples' mentalities would be flooded, all the 
time, with states of thought and feeling coming to 
them from all sorts of persons, in all sorts of 
places, who are thinking about them. 

A Natural Barrier Broken 

But, in this case, the thought-and-feeling-im- 
pulse sent by the daughter toward the father was 
so intense that it broke this natural barrier, for 
the moment, and his mentality received and took 
on her state of feeling. Under the stimulus of 
this feeling, his mentality did what our mentali- 
ties frequently do, when in the dream state. It 
objectified words and a visual image correspond- 
ing to the state of feeling which it had received 
and was experiencing. If, at a given time, any 
two people felt exactly the same, — mark you, I 
say, exactly the same, — they would say exactly 
the same words, and do the same things. Accord- 
ingly, when the father, for the moment, felt the 
same as the daughter, his mentality expressed 
itself, by auditizing and visualizing just what 
her mentality was expressing. 

Now, for the time being, we will let this inci- 
dent stand; and I will relate another one, with 

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which, after finishing it, I wish to correlate this 
one. 

Another Pertinent Incident 

When I was about twenty-one years of age, 
long before I knew anything about Christian Sci- 
ence, I had quite a severe and protracted fit of 
illness, which did not confine me to the house, but 
kept me from attending to my regular work. Dur- 
ing this time, I was staying with an uncle in the 
country, and he was a subscriber to a farm jour- 
nal, known as "The Farm and Fireside." One 
day, I chanced to read in this paper an advertise- 
ment, worded substantially as follows: "Clair- 
voyant Physician. Send a lock of your hair for 
a free diagnosis, and recommendation as to treat- 
ment." The name and address of a physician in 
Michigan was given. I was in New York state at 
the time. 

A Clairvoyant Diagnosis 

Half out of curiosity, half seriously, I an- 
swered the advertisement, sending merely my 
name and address, and a small bit of my hair. 
As quickly as a letter could reach the town in 
Michigan and a reply come back, — that is, by 
return mail, — I received a letter, describing my 
height, weight, general personal appearance, and 

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all the symptoms of the disease, more accurately 
than I could have found words to describe them 
myself. Incidentally, I will remark that I did not 
take up with the proposed offer of treatment ; for 
I knew, even then, that it is one thing to under- 
stand what is the trouble in a human situation, 
and it is another thing to know how to remedy it. 
Many who are accurate in the diagnosis of dis- 
ease are unable to heal the disease, even after 
they know what it is. 

How Was the Diagnosis Made? 
But the question now pertinent is, How did 
that physician know what was the matter with 
me? The answer is, that he was what is called a 
psychic ; that is, his mentality easily got into touch 
with the realm of sub-consciousness. Through 
the sub-consciousness, in which mental operations 
go on regardless of so-called distance, his men- 
tality received and took on my exact state of feel- 
ing at the time. Then, all he had to do, in order 
to diagnose my case, was to observe his own tem- 
porary state of feeling, in the light of his trained 
medical experience, and correlate the symptoms 
which he felt with his previously acquired knowl- 
edge, and then write me what they signified from 
a medical standpoint. Also, while in mental con- 
tact with the sub-conscious realm, taking on my 
mentality and state of feeling, — taking on my con- 



sciousness, as it were, — he would take on the same 
picture of my bodily manifestation, interior and 
exterior, as I held concerning myself. Having 
taken on my state of feeling, he merely translated 
the details of that feeling into the English lan- 
gauge, which he had to do in thought, in order to 
write me the letter. He would probably have 
done it anyway, as it is rather natural for all of 
us to translate our feelings into words, even if 
we do not speak them aloud, or write them. 

A Supposable Case and Results Which Would 
Follow 

Now I want you to note that, had it chanced that 
I had read half a dozen similar advertisements 
that same day, by as many different clairvoyant 
physicians, and answered each advertisement, and 
suppose, for purposes of illustration, that one of 
them had been a native of Norway, and another 
one a Chinese, and another a Persian, and anoth- 
er a Spaniard, and another an Italian. Then, 
when each of them took on my state of feeling, 
or my consciousness, they would all have the same 
state of feeling and see the same picture of my 
physical person, but when they came to translate 
that state of feeling into language, the Nor- 
wegian would think and feel in terms of his lan- 
guage; another would think in Chinese; another, 

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in Persian; another, in Spanish; and another, in 
Italian. That is, each would describe a state of 
feeling, which I would describe in English, in his 
own native language ; so the use of six languages 
would be involved. 

One State of Feeling Heard in Many- 
Languages 

Now, suppose that, at the time that the six were 
in mental contact with my state of consciousness 
through the subconsciousness, I were suffering 
intensely, and were voicing my sufferings in Eng- 
lish words. If my state of feeling were suffi- 
ciently intense, — as intense as was the feeling of 
Miss S, when she involuntarily uttered the cry of 
distress to her father who was miles away, — it 
might transfer itself to these six physicians with 
sufficient intensity to reproduce a sense of distress 
in their mentalities violent enough to cause them 
to cry out with pain, or, at least, violent enough to 
cause their mentalities to objectify the state of 
consciousness in terms of words which they 
seemed to hear, — as was the case with Mr. S, when 
he got the impulse from his daughter at the 
moment of her being burned to death. His men- 
tality, under the stress of the impulse, expressed 
to itself in words just what the daughter at the 
moment was crying out. 

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So, under the circumstances which I have de- 
scribed, the mentalities of these six physicians, 
taking on at the same instant the same violent 
feeling, might translate the details of that feel- 
ing into words, seeming to be heard, but each 
would translate them into words of his own native 
language ; and so it would come to pass that a feel- 
ing which I was vocalizing in English would be 
heard, or seem to be heard, many miles away, in 
many different directions, in five different 
languages. 

These Experiences Parallel to a Higher 
Phenomenon 

Now these are phenomena which occurred, or 
might occur, on the mortal mind plane; and so 
they are in the realm of error. But, as we stated 
at the beginning, they may help us to understand 
that which occurs, sometimes, in higher mental 
activity. 

The Preparation for the Marvel 

The Day of Pentecost was the culmination of a 
long period of spiritual preparation. For more 
than three years, a company of disciples had been 
under the immediate instruction of the most 
spiritual man who ever trod the globe, Jesus of 
Nazareth. There had been the period of conster- 

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nation, for the three days following the crucifix- 
ion, then the period of reassurance after the 
resurrection, when the disciples had received visi- 
ble proof that their great teacher had demon- 
strated his power over death, as he had foretold, 
time and again, that he would do. The disciples, 
who had gone into hiding immediately after the 
crucifixion, were now more bold. They had be- 
come convinced that real life and power are in 
the unseen world ; that this is the basis of the life 
worth living, and that what happens in the realm 
of the seen is of comparatively small consequence. 
Then, "when the Day of Pentecost was fully 
come, they were all together with one accord in 
one place," and they were all aware of having 
come together for a great purpose ; for their Lord, 
whose word they had now come to trust implicitly, 
had told them that, on that day, the Spirit of the 
Lord would be poured out upon them, and they 
had come in a mood of great expectancy. 

The Effect of Group -Consciousness 

Now, whenever a group of people assembles, 
in times of unusual interest, moved by a common 
purpose, almost invariably a group-consciousness 
takes possession of them, which is far more 
intense than would be the consciousness of any 
individual by himself. When the purpose which 
calls them together is of a mortal order, the 

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group-consciousness which animates them is usu- 
ally called the " mob- spirit"; and it is well known 
that, under the influence of a mob-spirit, people 
will do and say things, and have experiences, that 
they would never do and say and have when by 
themselves. 

Likewise, when the purpose that calls a large 
number of people together is a spiritual one, espe- 
cially if many in the assembly are of high spirit- 
ual attainment, then the group-consciousness be- 
comes a highly intensified condition of spiritual- 
ity, — so much so, that the cobwebs of materiality, 
the obstructions of brain-mentation, are swept out 
of the mentalities of members of the group who 
ordinarily are not spiritually minded; but the 
Spirit of God, always behind every spiritually 
dormant human mentality, then comes to the 
front, and all mentalities in the group energize 
with the influence of this Almighty Spirit of Life. 
Thus all present come very largely into the one 
Mind, "that Mind which was also in Christ 
Jesus," and are then sufficiently spiritual, so that 
their predominant state of feeling is an expe- 
rience of divine Love, the uplift of spiritual joy, 
the inspiration of the experience of infinite lib- 
erty; but members of the group are still human 
enough so that they are likely to translate the 
details of their spiritual feeling into human 

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words, by means of which they express to them- 
selves or others, in human language, that which 
they are thinking and feeling. 

The Outpouring of the Spirit 

Now, on this Day of Pentecost, the disciples of 
Jesus, being Galilaeans, came together, under the 
influence of the Holy Spirit, and began to speak, 
one after another, declaring the wonderful works 
of God. There was such a stir, and such an influ- 
ence went out from the group, that other Jews 
who were present in large numbers at the feast 
of the Pentecost, — of Jewish lineage, but natives 
of many different countries, and not naturally 
understanding the dialect of the Galilaeans, but 
speaking the languages of the several countries 
from which they came, — began to gather around 
the group of the disciples, moved at first by curi- 
osity, and marveling at the wonderful power with 
which they spoke. Some thought they were drunk, 
observing which, Peter declared that they were 
not, because it was only nine o'clock in the morn- 
ing, and men do not customarily come under the 
influence of wine as early as that. 

The Hearing in Many Languages 

As the Galilaeans continued to testify, the crowd 
grew, until it became so large that the majority 

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were too far away from the speakers to hear what 
they said in the natural way ; but soon vast num- 
bers of the crowd came under the spiritual influ- 
ence, becoming more intense as the result of the 
group-consciousness ascending to the one Mind, 
and then they took on or entered into the same 
state of feeling as possessed those who were 
speaking. As a consequence, the mentalities of 
thousands of men in that group, "out of every 
nation under heaven, ' ' began to translate the feel- 
ing common to them all into an expression taking 
the form of language, and probably so vividly 
that it seemed like spoken words which they 
heard; but, in that case, each translated the one 
state of feeling into his own native language ; and 
thus it came to pass that when the Galilaeans 
spoke, the multitude was astounded, because 
every man in the crowd heard, not in the language 
of the Galilaeans which he could not understand, 
but in the language of his own country, which he 
could and did understand. 

Another similar activity occurred when the 
mentality of the child Samuel translated a feel- 
ing-impulse which it received from higher Mind 
into words that he apparently heard, and which 
seemed to call him by name. The call was in the 
feeling, from higher Intelligence, but the words, 
as in all such cases, were supplied or objectified 
by the lower stratum of his own mentality. A 

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similar incident occurred, as related in the 12th 

chapter of John: 

"Now is my soul troubled; and what shall I say? 
Father, save me from this hour: but for this cause came 
I unto this hour. Father, glorify thy name. Then came 
there a voice from heaven [higher consciousness], saying, 
I have both glorified it, and will glorify it again. The 
people therefore, that stood by, and heard it, said that it 
thundered ; others said, an angel spake to Him. Jesus 
answered and said, This voice came not because of me, 
but for your sakes." 

Under the influence of the mentality of Jesus, 
sweeping away the materiality, in greater or less 
measure, from the mentalities of the by-standers, 
they were all, more or less, in a spiritual group- 
consciousness ; and they received from higher 
Mind a spiritual feeling. The mentalities of those 
who got it most clearly translated the feeling into 
the definite words, "I have both glorified it, and 
will glorify it again," supplying the words so 
clearly that they appeared as audible. Other by- 
standers, not being so spiritually minded, and not 
getting the spiritual feeling so clearly, were yet 
touched by it in a measure, indistinctly, and their 
mentalities supplied an indistinct sound, so that 
they said that it thundered. 

In considering these phenomena, it is well to 
remember that, in all cases, it is the mentality, 
and not any outward object, that supplies the 
hearing. Any well-schooled natural scientist or 
philosopher will tell you that, when an iceberg 

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cracks in two in the middle of the ocean, there is 
no sound, unless some mentality be within reach 
of the occurrence. In all cases, what we hear, 
so far as the sound is concerned, is not external 
objects, but states of our own consciousness. 

When it comes to be thoroughly understood that 
matter itself, in the last analysis, is mental, and 
that the whole realm of consciousness is an expe- 
rience, not of matter, but of true or false mental- 
ity, then all seeming mysteries will have been 
solved. 



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INSTANTANEOUS TRANSPORTATION 

We read, in the eighth chapter of Acts, that 
Philip was led of the Spirit to make a journey 
southward from Jerusalem, and that there he met 
a prominent Ethiopian, a servant of the queen 
of the country, and entered into conversation with 
him. The Ethiopian was converted and baptised ; 
and the record says that, ''"When they were come 
up out of the water, the Spirit of the Lord caught 
away Philip, that the eunuch saw him no more; 
but Philip was found at Azotus," which was many 
miles from where he had been with the eunuch 
a few moments before. The record gives us to 
understand that the transportation from one 
place to the other was made practically instan- 
taneously. There is much testimony, in the total, 
that various people, at different times in the 
world's history, have disappeared in one place 
and found themselves at another distant place 
immediately; and the question of how this could 
happen has been considered a difficult one to an- 
swer; but it is not difficult, if we have the right 
basis of understanding. 

Such an occurrence as the one above related 
can be understood only by those who have previ- 
ously reached a comprehension of the fact that 
matter in all of its manifestations is but a mode 

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of mortal consciousness, and is unreal, — a fact 
which even the best known physicists and chem- 
ists of the world are now admitting. For instance, 
we read in the introduction to a text-book on 
physics by Henderson and Woodhull, of Columbia 
University, as follows : 

"Matter makes itself known to us by the testimony of 
the senses. We see it, hear it, smell it, taste it, touch it 
But observe that, after all, this is indirect testimony. 
These impressions are all of them simply brain impres- 
sions. He see, hear, smell, taste, touch, in our conscious- 
ness only. We cannot assert, therefore, that matter exists 
apart from this consciousness." 

Herbert Spencer has written : 

"Matter, motion, and force, are not reality, but the 
symbols of reality." 

In the same line is the following declaration 
by Dr. Gustave Le Bon, in his book, ''The Evolu- 
tion of Forces," one of the International Scien- 
tific Series : 

"The world constructed with the impressions of our 
senses is a summary translation, and necessarily a far 
from faithful one, of the real world which we know not" 

Mr. Grant Allen, author and scientist, states the 
following view : 

"The universe, as known to us, consists wholly of 
mind, and matter is a doubtful and uncertain inference 
of the human intelligence." 

Professor Max Miiller, of world-wide celebrity, 
has written: 

"To speak of matter or substance as something exist- 
ing by itself and presented to the senses is mere myth- 
ology." 

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Once it be admitted that matter is unreal, then 
it is seen that the material earth, for instance, 
though it appears, is "not so." Then one can 
ask one's self the question, "How many miles is 
it around that which is not so?" and answer it, 
1 ' No distance at all. ' ' Granting that the material 
city of London, and all the seeming matter, as land 
and water, appearing between us and it, is un- 
real, "How far is it across an unreality to the 
unreality named the city of London 1 ?" the answer 
evidently is, "No distance at all." And the an- 
swer would be the same with regard to a question 
as to the distance from here to the sun, which, 
though appearing as matter, is nothing but an 
illusory state of false consciousness. 

So, in considering the transportation question, 
whether immediate or stretched out over hours or 
days of so-called time, from a philosophical stand- 
point we are really dealing, not with matter and 
space, as appears, but with what seems to tran- 
spire in states of consciousness which are unreal 
and false, and not, therefore, solid and fixed, as 
they seem to be, but perfectly fluid. 

In dreams, we change our sense of location in- 
stantly and without effort, by a mere change of 
thought, because the sense of location is but a 
state and part of the dream. We can do this, be- 
cause the dream consciousness does not seem to 
be under the control of any other order of con- 

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sciousness, but is "a law unto itself," as it were, 
changing its material objectifications at will. 

Now, as we have seen, our so-called waking 
sense of material surroundings and of location is 
but a mode of objectified mortal consciousness; 
but the personal waking consciousness is, ordinar- 
ily, under the mesmeric control of general belief, 
the cosmic carnal mind, which tends to hold the 
personal belief of all mortals to a sense of uni- 
formity, and to fix the conditions of material 
objectification for them. All humans were born 
under and into this sense of mesmeric control, 
and usually pass from the cradle to the grave 
thinking this control to be "law," or the "order 
of nature," and most people, taking it for granted 
that matter is real, even accept it as God's crea- 
tion, without an attempt at protest. Accordingly, 
for most people, the fact holds that, "to whom ye 
yield yourselves servants to obey, his servants ye 
are; whether of sin [false belief] unto death, or 
of obedience unto right-wise-ness." 

Occasionally, here and there, a person becomes 
aware of the fact that the material order is not 
real substance, and that the so-called laws of na- 
ture are but the mesmeric imposition of cosmic 
carnal mind, whose seeming power is but a pre- 
tense. This knowledge is attained by those who 
have awakened to the fact that real substance is 
Spirit, and that real law and real power are the 

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manifestations of this Spirit, Almighty God. If 
people thus awakened continually strive to draw 
nigh to the higher Mind, they become imbued with 
its power. Consequently, there comes a degree of 
their development when their reflection of the 
power of God makes their personal consciousness 
stronger than the mesmerism of cosmic carnal 
mind, alias the devil; and they are held less and 
less under its seeming mesmeric control. Conse- 
quently, their thought, even on the mortal plane, 
is a law unto itself, because their reflecting higher 
Mind has broken the control which general belief 
had seemed to hold over them ; and so, just as is 
the case with those in the dream consciousness, 
whatever state of thought they hold immediately 
objectifies itself, according to itself, and not at 
all according to the seeming mortal law that binds 
the thought of other humans who have less benefit 
from the realization of Spirit. Consequently, in 
the case of those who have entered far into higher 
consciousness, if they think " Chicago, ' ' there they 
are. If, the next instant, they think * 'London," 
there they are; and so, if sufficiently freed by 
spirituality from the limitations of mortal mes- 
merism, they may be at will in any place they 
think about, taking part as long as they will in 
the uniform mortal illusion that binds the inhabit- 
ants of that place, but breaking free from that 

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illusion any instant they choose to, and entering 
into another one. 

When they become still more spiritual, and 
enter fully into union with the one Mind, they 
then transcend the illusion of materiality entirely, 
and disappear from the apprehension of carnal 
sense, as did Jesus when he demonstrated the 
ascension. His disciples beheld him no more. 

I was much interested to find confirmation of 
what I am here teaching in Science and Health. 
On page 90, Mrs. Eddy says : 

"In dreams we fly to Europe and meet a far-off friend. 
The looker-on sees the body in bed, but the supposed in- 
habitant of that body carries it through the air and over 
the ocean. This shows the possibilities of thought. 
Divest yourself of the thought that there can be sub- 
stance in matter, and the movements and transitions now 
possible for mortal mind will be found to be equally pos- 
sible for the body." 

This spiritualized state of consciousness, in 
which and by which this and other so-called 
miracles may be wrought, will be characteristic 
of many who will live in the cycle of the Spirit 
which is to follow the end of this age ; and it is a 
condition of consciousness worth attaining, not 
only for the freedom which it may give one from 
the limitation of being bound to one place, unless 
one undergoes the expense and trouble of travel- 
ling, but because, in the presence of such a state 
of consciousness, the matter-belief is fluid, and 
many phases of it are immediately destructible; 

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so that one imbued with this higher consciousness 
can immediately erase such material manifesta- 
tions (more properly spoken of as obj edifications 
of general belief) as are named " cancer", "car- 
buncle", or any other material picture of disease. 
In fact, while still in touch with the material be- 
lief, they have mastery over it in every way, in- 
stead of being limited and afflicted by it. "Where 
the Spirit of the Lord is, there is liberty. ' ' 



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APPENDIX I 



SOME PERTINENT PROPHECIES 



From the Authorized Version, Matt. 24: 3-14 

And as he sat upon the mount of Olives, the 
disciples came unto him privately, saying, Tell 
us, when shall these things be? and what shall 
be the sign of thy coming, and of the end of the 
world? 

And Jesus answered and said unto them, Take 
heed that no man deceive you. 

For many shall come in my name saying, I am 
Christ; and shall deceive many. 

And ye shall hear of wars and rumors of wars ; 
see that ye be not troubled; for all these things 
must come to pass, but the end is not yet. 

For nation shall rise against nation, and king- 
dom against kingdom ; and there shall be famines, 
and pestilence, and earthquakes, in divers places. 

And all these are the beginning of sorrows. 

Then shall they deliver you up to be afflicted, 
and shall kill you; and ye shall be hated of all 
nations for my name's sake. 

And then shall many be offended, and shall 
betray one another, and shall hate one another. 

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And many false prophets shall rise, and shall 
deceive many. 

And because iniquity shall abound, the love of 
many shall wax cold. 

But he that shall endure unto the end, the same 
shall be saved. 

And this gospel of the kingdom shall be 
preached in all the world for a witness unto all 
nations ; and then shall the end come. 



Acts 2: 1-21 



And when the day of Pentecost was fully come, 
they were all with one accord in one place. 

And suddenly there came a sound from heaven 
as of a rushing mighty wind, and it filled all the 
house where they were sitting. 

And there appeared unto them cloven tongues 
like as of fire, and it sat upon each of them. 

And they were all filled with the Holy Ghost, 
and began to speak with other tongues, as the 
Spirit gave them utterance. 

And there were dwelling at Jerusalem Jews, 
devout men, out of every nation under heaven. 

Now when this was noised abroad, the multi- 
tude came together and were confounded, because 
that every man heard them speak in his own 
language. 

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And they were all amazed and marvelled, say- 
ing one to another, Behold, are not all these which 
speak Galilaeans? 

And how hear we every man in our own tongue, 
wherein we were born? 

Parthians, and Medes, and Elamites, and the 
dwellers in Mesopotamia, and in Judea, and Cap- 
padocia, in Pontus, and Asia. 

Phrygia, and Pamphylia, in Egypt, and in the 
parts of Libya about Cyrene, and strangers of 
Eome, Jews and proselytes. 

Cretes and Arabians, we do hear them speak 
in our tongues the wonderful works of God. 

And they were all amazed, and were in doubt, 
saying one to another, What meaneth this? 

Others mocking said, These men are full of new 
wine. 

But Peter, standing up with the eleven, lifted 
up his voice, and said unto them, Ye men of Judea, 
and all ye that dwell at Jerusalem, be this known 
unto you, and hearken to my words : 

For these are not drunken, as ye suppose, see- 
ing it is but the third hour of the day. 

But this is that which was spoken by the 
prophet Joel; 

And it shall come to pass in the last days, saith 
God, I will pour out of my Spirit upon all flesh: 
and your sons and your daughters shall prophesy, 

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and your young men shall see visions, and your 
old men shall dream dreams : 

And on my servants and on my handmaidens I 
will pour out in those days of my Spirit; and 
they shall prophesy : 

And I will show wonders in heaven above, and 
signs in the earth beneath; blood, and fire, and 
vapour of smoke : 

The sun shall be turned into darkness, and the 
moon into blood, before that great and notable 
day of the Lord come : 

And it shall come to pass, that whosoever shall 
call on the name of the Lord shall be saved. 



A PROPHESY FROM PERSIA 

A number of years ago, Mr. Charles Mason 
Remey prepared a series of questions, which he 
was permitted to ask from Abdul Baha, the pres- 
ent leader of the world-wide Bahai movement, 
which originated in Persia something more than 
fifty years ago, and which, at the present time, has 
something like ten million followers, although 
there is no formal organization, the founders of 
the movement discountenancing any attempt to 
form one. Part of the questions and answers, as 
recorded at the time, were as follows : 

Question. "What is the significance of the 
twelfth verse of the twelfth chapter of Daniel: 
* Blessed is he that waiteth, and cometh to the 
thousand three hundred and five and thirty 
(1335) days?" 

Answer. " After that date, a great disturbance, 
a terrible calamity, is to happen in the world." 

Question. "Is this to be in the form of war 
and strife, or will it be as an earthquake, such as 
those which have happened in Messina and else- 
where ?" 

Answer. "Wars and earthquakes, such as you 
have mentioned, will happen, but these, compared 
with this great catastrophe to come, will be as 
nothing. As in the past, whole peoples and civ- 



ilizations have, through physical changes, been 
obliterated, so that not a trace has remained. So 
it will be, when this great change shall take 
place.' ' 

Question. "In the Bible, there is a prophesy: 
'And it shall come to pass that in all the land, 
saith the Lord, two parts therein shall be cut off 
and die ; but the third shall be left therein. And I 
will bring the third part through the fire, and will 
refine them as silver is refined, and will try them 
as gold is tried; they shall call on my name, and 
I will hear them ; I will say, It is my people ; and 
they shall say, The Lord is my God' (Zech. 13: 
8, 9). Does this refer to the happenings in ques- 
tion!" 

Answer. "Yes." 

Question. "Will this take place soon after the 
date 1917, which is the end of the 1335 prophet- 
ical 'days,' mentioned in Daniel, or will it be in 
the very distant future?" 

Answer. "It is not so very soon, nor, again, 
is it in the distant future. ' ' 



As to how Biblical prophecy works out in dates, read the 
pamphlet, "The Years 1914 to 1923 in Bible Prophecy— Scrip- 
ture Prediction of the Present War", by T. Troward, to be 
purchased at 20 cents from The Central Christian Science 
Institute, Chicago. «,« 7 _ ^j ft*C*~<U* flUj.QUup J^ 



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AIRPLANES AND ZEPPELINS FORE 
TOLD IN ANCIENT PROPHECY 



Mr. F. L. Rawson, M. I. E. E., of London, was, 
so far as the writer knows, the first to call atten- 
tion to the fact that many of the new inventions 
and devices used in the present war were fore- 
seen, in vision, by the ancient prophets, and were 
described by them as well as the language at their 
command permitted. In reading these prophecies, 
we must remember that the writers were not able 
to use such technical terms as " engines," "pro- 
pellers," "dirigibles," "bombs," etc., applicable 
to modern machinery and devices, because no such 
words had been invented. 

In "The War and the Great World Change to 
Follow," Mr. Rawson has written the following 
concerning Ezekiel's description of bi-planes: 

"At last now we are able to understand 
Ezekiel's prophecy of the wheels in the first chap- 
ter, verses 19-24. It is just what you would expect 
such a man to write at that early date, if he saw 
the cinematographic picture of an aeroplane. It 
is as follows: 'And this was their appearance; 
they had the likeness of a man . . . And their 
feet were straight feet; . . . they (the living 
creatures) sparkled like the colour of burnished 

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brass. And they had the hands of a man under 
their wings . . . and their wings were divided 
above (marginal translation) : two wings of every 
one were joined one to another, and two covered 
their bodies. And they went every one straight 
forward. 

1 And the living creatures ran and returned as 
the appearance of a flash of lightning . . . their 
work was as it were a wheel in the middle of a 
wheel. And when the living creatures went, the 
wheels went by them; and when the living crea- 
tures were lifted up from the earth, the wheels 
were lifted up . . . for the spirit of life (marginal 
translation) was in the wheels . . . And under the 
firmament were their wings straight, the one 
toward the other; and every one had two which 
covered on this side, and every one had two which 
covered on that side, their bodies. And when they 
went, I heard the noise of their wings, like the 
noise of great waters, as the voice of the 
Almighty, the voice of speech, as the noise of an 
host; when they stood they let down their wings.' 

"The roar of the motor is aptly spoken of as 
'the noise of great waters,' and the whirr of the 
propellers as 'the noise of their wings.' Ezekiel 
seeming to hear the noise overhead, thought that 
it was ( the voice of the Almighty.' When he saw 
the aeroplanes land, the planes became almost 

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invisible as they appeared to be on a level, and 
it looked as if 'they let down their wings.' " 

Zeppelins 

When one considers in connection with the 
"clouds," mentioned in the following passage 
from the fifteenth chapter of II Esdras, that they 
are described as "smiting one upon another," 
and as "smiting down a great multitude of stars 
[bombs] upon the earth/' and that, in conse- 
quence, "there shall be great fearfulness and 
trembling upon the earth," one may perceive that 
Esdras may have had a forevision of the giant 
Zeppelins, floating in the sky, for which there 
was no better term available in his language than 
"clouds." The passage is as follows: 

"Behold clouds from the east and from the 
north unto the south, and they are very horrible 
to look upon, full of wrath and storm. They shall 
smite one upon another, and they smite down a 
great multitude of stars upon the earth, even 
their own star; and blood shall be from the sword 
unto the belly. And there shall be great fearful- 
ness and trembling upon the earth; and they that 
see the wrath shall be afraid, and trembling shall 
come upon them. And there shall come great 
storms from the south, and from the north, and 
another part from the west. And strong winds 

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shall arise from the east, and shall open it; and 
the cloud which he raised up in wrath, and the 
star stirred to cause fear toward the east and 
west wind, shall be destroyed. The great and 
mighty clouds shall be lifted up full of wrath, and 
the star, that they may make all the earth afraid, 
and them that dwell therein; and they shall pour 
out over every high and eminent place an horrible 
star" (the bombs which they drop). 



TENNYSON'S PROPHECY 

(From "Locksley Hall," Printed in 1842) 

"I dipt into the future, far as human eye could see, 
Saw the Vision of the world, and all the wonder that 
would be; 

Saw the heavens fill with commerce, argosies of magic 

sails, 
Pilots of the purple twilight, dropping down with costly 

bales; 

Heard the heavens fill with shouting, and there rain'd a 

ghastly dew 
From the nations' airy navies grappling in the central 

blue; 

Far along the world-wide whisper of the south-wind rush- 
ing warm, 

With the standards of the peoples plunging thro' the 
thunder-storm ; 

Till the war-drum throbb'd no longer, and the battle-flags 

were furl'd 
In the Parliament of man, the Federation of the world." 

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THE WAR PROPHECY OF TOLSTOY 



This is a revelation of events of a universal 
character which must shortly come to pass. Their 
spiritual outlines are now before my eyes. I see 
floating upon the surface of the sea of human 
fate the huge silhouette of a nude woman. She is, 
with her beauty, poise, her smile, her jewels, a 
super- Venus. Nations rush madly after her, each 
of them eager to attract her especially. But she, 
like an eternal courtesan, flirts with all. In her 
hair ornaments, of diamonds and rubies, is en- 
graved her name, ' ' Commercialism. ' ' As alluring 
and bewitching as she seems, much destruction 
and agony follow in her wake. Her breath, reek- 
ing of sordid transactions, her voice of metallic 
character like gold, and her look of greed are so 
much poison to the nations who fall victims to 
her charms. 

Three Torches of Corruption 

And behold, she has three gigantic arms with 
three torches of universal corruption in her hands. 
The first torch represents the flame of War, that 
the beautiful courtesan carries from city to city 
and country to country. Patriotism answers with 
flashes of honest flame, but the end is a roar of 
guns and muskets. 

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The second torch bears the flame of bigotry and 
hyprocrisy. It lights the lamps only in temples 
and on the altars of sacred institutions. It carries 
the seed of falsity and fanaticism. It kindles the 
minds that are still in cradles and follows them 
to their graves. 

The third torch is that of the law, that danger- 
ous foundation of all unauthentic traditions, which 
first does its fatal work in the family, then sweeps 
through the larger world of literature, art and 
statesmanship. 

All Europe In Flames 

The great conflagration will start about 1912 
[date of the first Balkan war], set by the torch of 
the first arm in the countries of Southeastern 
Europe. It will develop into a destruction and 
calamity in 1914. In that year I see all Europe 
in flames and bleeding. I hear the lamentations 
of huge battle-fields. 

But in the year 1915 a strange figure from the 
North — a new Napoleon — enters the stage of the 
bloody drama. He is a man of little militaristic 
training, a writer or a journalist, but in his grip 
most of Europe will remain until 1925. 

The end of the great calamity will mark a new 
political era for the old world. There will be 
left no empires or kingdoms, but the world will 

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form a federation of the United States of Nations. 
There will remain only four great giants — the 
Anglo-Saxons, the Latins, the Slavs and the Mon- 
golians. 

(The latter part of the prophecy is omitted.) 



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A REMARKABLE PROPHECY 



Written Over Three Hundred Years Ago, 
But True Today 



In a publication called ''Omens of the Great 
"War," the following allegory, written by Brother 
Johannes three hundred years ago, appears, says 
the New York Herald. 

In deciphering the allegory it must be remem- 
bered that: 

France is represented by a cock; 

England by a leopard; 

Russia by a white eagle; 

Germany by a black eagle; 

and Austria by "the other eagle"; 

while the lamb stands for Justice, Mercy and 
Truth. 

Towards the year 2000 the anti-Christ will 
manifest himself. His army will surpass in num- 
bers all that can be imagined. 

There will be Christians among the legions, and 
there will be Mohammedan and savage soldiers 
among the defenders of the Lamb. 

For the first time, the Lamb will be all red. 
There will not be a single spot in the Christian 
world that will not be red, and red will be the 
heavens, the earth, the waters and even the air, 

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for blood will flow in the domains of the four 
elements at once . 

The black eagle will throw himself on the cock, 
who will lose many feathers, but will strike back 
heroically with his spurs. He soon would be 
crushed, were it not for the help of the leopard 
and his claws. The black eagle will come from 
the country of Luther, will surprise the cock from 
another side, and will invade the country of the 
cock, up to the middle of it. 

The white eagle, coming from the north, will 
surprise the black eagle and the "other eagle," 
and will invade the country of the anti-Christ from 
one end to the other. The black eagle will see 
himself forced to liberate the cock in order to 
fight the white eagle, and the cock will pursue the 
black eagle into the country of the anti-Christ to 
help the white eagle. 

The battles fought up to then will be as nothing 
compared to those which will take place in the 
country of Luther; for the seven angels will to- 
gether pour in the fire of their censers on the 
impious earth, which signifies that the Lamb will 
order the extermination of the race of the anti- 
Christ. 

When the beast sees that he is lost, he will be- 
come furious, and for many months the beak of 
the white eagle, the claws of the leopard, and the 
spurs of the cock will strike furiously at him. 

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They will cross rivers over the bodies of the 
slain, and these, in places, will change the course 
of the waters. They will bury only men of noble 
families, the leading commandants, and the 
princes, because to the carnage made by the armies 
will be joined the wholesale death of those who 
will die of hunger or the pest. 

The anti-Christ will ask many times for peace, 
but the seven angels who walk in front of the three 
angels defending the Lamb have declared that 
victory will only be granted on the condition that 
the anti-Christ be crushed like straw on the barn 
floor. 

The executives of the justice of the Lamb can- 
not stop fighting as long as the anti-Christ pos- 
sesses soldiers to fight against them. 

That which makes the decree of the Lamb so 
implacable is that the anti-Christ has pretended 
to be the follower of Christ and to act in his name, 
and if he does not perish, the fruit of the redeemer 
would be lost and the doors of hades would prevail 
against the savior. 

The fight which will take place where the anti- 
Christ forges his arms will not be in any sense 
a human fight. [This may have reference to 
Essen, where the Krupp works are, and many au- 
thorities believe that the decisive battle may take 
place in Westphalia.] 

The three armies defending the Lamb will ex- 

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terminate the last army of the anti-Christ, but 
they will be forced to erect on the battlefield a 
pyre as large as a city ; for the bodies of the dead 
will change the aspect of the countryside, as there 
will be mounds of the slain. 

The anti-Christ will lose his crown and will die 
in solitude and madness. His empire will be di- 
vided into twenty-two states, but none of them 
will any longer possess armies or vessels. [Curi- 
ously enough, this number coincides with the 
number of German States.] 

The white eagle, by the order of St. Michael, 
will drive the crescent from Europe and will in- 
stall himself at Constantinople. Then will begin 
an era of peace and prosperity for the earth, and 
there will be no more wars, each nation being 
governed according to its desires, and living ac- 
cording to the rules of justice. 

There will no longer be Lutherans or Schis- 
matics. The Lamb will reign and the supreme 
happiness of humanity will begin. Happy will 
be those who, escaping the perils of that period, 
will be able to enjoy the fruit of the reign of the 
Spirit, and of the purging of humanity, which can 
only come after the defeat of the anti-Christ. 



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APPENDIX II 



BRAIN MENTATION 

MEDIATORIAL CONSCIOUSNESS 

AND ABSOLUTE MIND 

Let us first make a careful analysis of the situ- 
ation with which we have to deal on the plane of 
human experience. It is not claimed that this 
analysis is a statement of truth; but is an uncov- 
ering, in the light of the truth, of the ways of 
erroneous belief, with which we have to contend ; 
and error, uncovered, is always more easily dealt 
with and destroyed by the application of truth; so 
the analysis is worth while. 

The highest order of consciousness is that 
which, from the human standpoint, is super-con- 
sciousness, the divine Mind, God, the concepts or 
manifestations of which all bear the characteris- 
tics of being spiritual, eternal, changeless, per- 
fect, infinite or unbounded; and all of which are 
inimitably good. 

The lowest order of consciousness is that which, 
from the human standpoint, is sub-consciousness, 
all of whose concepts or manifestations are 
changeable, temporary, and most of them are 

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finite, having form, and presented as matter. The 
characteristics of the manifestations of sub-con- 
sciousness are diametrically opposite to those of 
super-consciousness, and so they are diametric- 
ally opposite to infinite Good, which indicates that 
sub-consciousness, from the absolute standpoint, 
is wholly evil. 

Brain Mentation 

Between these two orders of consciousness lies 
what may be spoken of as the human mentality, 
which is, in fact, an apparent blending of that 
which is above and that which is below, and which, 
for the most part, seems to function through a 
brain. 

In analyzing error, Mrs. Eddy recognizes this 
claim of falsehood. For instance, on page 185 of 
"Science and Health,' • she says: "Erroneous 
methods act on and through the material stratum 
of the human mind, called brain." She also rec- 
ognizes that, on the human plane, even the mani- 
festations of higher Mind function through the 
brain, as, for example, when she declared, on page 
531 of "Science and Health", that "It is well that 
the upper portions of the brain represent the 
higher moral sentiments, as if hope were ever 
prophesying thus: The human mind will some- 
time rise above all material and physical sense, 

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exchanging it for spiritual perception, and ex- 
changing human concepts for the divine conscious- 
ness. Then man will recognize his God-given 
dominion and being. ' ' 

Perhaps it will be helpful, if what is meant by 
" functioning" is illustrated in terms of some 
familiar experience. When music is produced 
through a pipe-organ, the pipes function the air 
that comes through them, as is easily shown by 
the fact that, if an organ is played in a vacuum, 
no music is produced. The physical basis of music 
is the air, far more than it is the organ. The 
organ simply serves to set the air in vibration at 
different rates of vibration. If the organ is in 
good condition, and is well played, beautiful music 
is the result. If a part of the organ is out of 
repair, the music will be faulty when certain keys 
are used, but otherwise good. If the organ is gen- 
erally in bad condition, the music will be unac- 
ceptable, though the organ were well played. Yet 
it is to be noted that the air which comes through 
a faulty organ is just as good as the air which 
comes through an organ in fine condition. It is 
also to be noted that the organ does not produce 
the air which it functions. 

Likewise, a human brain does not produce con- 
sciousness. It merely functions sub-conscious- 
ness, or super-consciousness, both of which, on 

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the plane of human experience, press through the 
brain, giving a human mentality the character of 
both good and evil, though these are really sepa- 
rate, and come from diametrically opposite 
sources. 

When a human brain is in thoroughly good con- 
dition, the result is manifested on the human 
plane as a well-rounded, normal human life. If a 
portion of the brain is defective, the life of that 
person will be defective in a corresponding mental 
manifestation, but normal in other respects. The 
defect may take the form of partial inaction, or of 
over-action, the mental result being stupidity 
along a certain line, or else insanity along that 
line. 

If the brain organ is generally defective, gen- 
eral insanity is manifested; if extremely defec- 
tive, a condition of idiocy will appear; and, if 
still more defective, the condition of so-called 
death ensues; that is, neither higher nor lower 
mentality function, any more, on the human plane, 
through that brain. No consciousness is de- 
stroyed, just as no air would be destroyed, if 
someone were to take an axe and smash a pipe- 
organ while it was being played. Nevertheless, 
the music would cease, because the instrument 
functioning the air had been destroyed. 

We know that these are facts in the human situ- 
ation, because, if a certain portion of the human 

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brain is impaired, there is always an impairment 
of the mental manifestation which, in all cases 
observed, characteristically is functioned by that 
particular portion of every human brain. For in- 
stance, the upper portion of the brain is very 
much more delicate in structure than the lower 
portions; and it is the upper portion which, as 
Mrs. Eddy indicates, functions the higher moral 
and spiritual sentiments. Now, in case a man 
uses alcoholic liquor to any considerable extent, 
the alcohol gets into his blood, and attacks first 
the upper portion of the brain, causing it to ap- 
pear, after a while, as though it had been cooked, 
or coagulated as is the white of an egg when 
boiled. In proportion as this happens, the mani- 
festation of the higher and finer faculties disap- 
pears from that man's life, though his health may 
remain good, for a time, and he may get on well 
in the management of business, and affairs that 
are conducted on a material basis. 

Now this is, as I have previously said, an anal- 
ysis of the way in which human mentality, as 
brain-mentation, behaves, if left to run its course, 
without any interference through the application 
of higher Mind; but if a person has become 
acquainted with the super-conscious Mind, and 
applies it in his own behalf, or, in a measure, if 
higher Mind is intelligently applied for him by 

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another who knows how to do so, in proportion 
to the thoroughness of this application all that 
has been said above may be annulled and set aside, 
greatly to the advantage of the person who may 
thus be freed from the fog and limitations of the 
brain order of consciousness. 

This may be accomplished by what, among 
Christian Scientists, is known as "treatment," 
properly adapted for this particular purpose. In 
Science and Health, Mrs. Eddy gives some state- 
ments, made from the standpoint of eternal Truth, 
which are excellent for use in this way. A few are 
reprinted herewith : 

"That Life or Mind is finite and physical or 
mainfested through brain and nerves, is false" 
(290:10-12). This statement seems diametrically 
opposite to some other statements quoted above; 
and it is, the reason being that the statements for- 
merly quoted were made from the standpoint of 
analyzing the erroneous action of human belief, 
while this statement is made from the standpoint 
of treating or correcting that belief, after its 
methods of operation have been uncovered. 

"The knowledge that brain-lobes cannot Mil a 
man [who knows how to intelligently rely upon 
higher Mind, God] nor affect the functions of 
mind would prevent the brain from becoming dis- 
eased" (395:30-32). 

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"The arguments to be used in curing insanity 
are the same as in other diseases; namely, the 
impossibility that matter, brain, can control or 
derange mind" (414:7-10). 

"The understanding that the Ego is Mind, and 
that there is but one Mind or intelligence, begins 
at once to destroy the errors of mortal sense and 
to supply the truth of immortal sense. This 
understanding makes the body harmonious; it 
makes the nerves, bones, brain, etc., servants, in- 
stead of masters. If man is governed by the law 
of divine Mind, his body is in submission to ever- 
lasting Life and Truth and Love. The great mis- 
take of mortals is to suppose that man, God's 
image and likeness, is both matter and Spirit, both 
good and evil" (216:11-21). 

Mediatorial Consciousness 

By the use of such declarations as these, and 
those given on page 53 of the preceding address, 
one may progressively demonstrate over the lim- 
itations imposed by cerebration, or brain-menta- 
tion, and may enter more and more into the realm 
of "fetterless Mind," in which condition of freer 
consciousness one may read the past, present and 
future of mortal mind, without being subject to it ; 
may largely control it and annul its more unpleas- 
ant and undesirable features; may speak human 
languages without taking the trouble to learn 

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them ; may know what is written in books without 
even reading them; may be wise in even human 
wisdom without taking the trouble to study or 
learn; may strike loose the fetters of sin and 
sickness from those who sit in bondage ; may im- 
part faith, peace, joy, and love to all associates, 
and may become in every way a source of bless- 
ing to one's self and to mankind. 

Absolute Mind 

In terms of the illustration which we have been 
using, if, when you had reached the top of a 
mountain, above the cloud region, you should 
take a balloon and go up, and up, indefinitely, you 
would get out of sight of the earth-order alto- 
gether. Likewise, though the mortal order of 
human experience, past, present and future, is 
spread out before one who is high in the spiritual 
consciousness, yet when one demonstrates the 
ascension, as Jesus did, one goes so high above 
the mortal order, and attains so completely the 
absolute Mind, God, that one is, like God Himself, 
out of sight of the earth-order, wholly; for God 
"is of purer eyes than to behold evil, and cannot 
look upon iniquity"; and likewise, with one who 
has attained final union with the infinite Mind. 

What all mankind is seeking is happiness. 

Happiness may be defined as a desirable state 
of consciousness. 

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A desirable state of consciousness is the unin- 
terrupted experience of love, joy and peace. This 
is what all men want. 

Now, just as gold is yellow, regardless of 
whether it is next something yellow or something 
green or something black, but is yellow because 
it is yellow, so God is Love because He is Love; 
and love reflected from God continues to be love, 
whether, on the human plane, it is met with love, 
or with hatred or malice. In the absolute realm, 
it meets with nothing unlike itself; and it is not 
love of anything outside itself. It is love because 
it is Love, and is not the love of persons or things, 
but is the love of Love. 

Just as gold is hard, regardless of whether it 
is next something hard or something soft, so God 
is Joy because He is Joy; and joy reflected from 
God continues to be joy, regardless of whether, 
on the human plane, it is met with joy, or with 
seeming occasions for sorrow. In the absolute 
realm, it meets with nothing unlike itself, and it 
is not joy about persons or things, but is the en- 
joyment of Love and Joy. 

Just as gold is opaque, regardless of whether 
it is next something opaque or something trans- 
lucent, so God is Peace because He is Peace ; and 
peace reflected from God, "the peace that passeth 
understanding", continues to be peace, whether 

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on the human plane it is met with peace or with 
discord. It takes its character from God and not 
from human surroundings. It is as peaceful when 
misunderstood and reviled as when it is praised; 
as peaceful on a battlefield as in the bosom of a 
harmonious family circle. In the absolute realm 
it meets with nothing unlike itself, yet it is not 
peace because of peaceful surroundings. It is the 
changeless peace of God. 

So, when you attain final and complete union 
with the absolute Mind, the absolute heaven, your 
consciousness will not be an enjoyment of per- 
sons or things or surroundings, but the peace of 
God, the enjoyment of joy, the love of Love, "all 
rapture through and through," the being of 
ecstatic Being. 

"When we realize that Life is Spirit, never in nor 
of matter, this understanding will expand into self-com- 
pleteness, finding all in God, good, and needing no other 
consciousness." — S. & H. 264. 

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